Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008To the Commissioners,I appreciate your efforts to curb the problem ofunsolicited bulk email. However, I am concerned about the proposed requirement for merchants to maintain suppression lists.We only send email to customers or those who have subscribed to our mailing lists. We include unsubscribe links in all of our email. We do not share our lists with anyone. The biggest mailing that we do is about once a year for about 3000 customers. We would be very hurt by the can-spam act as it stands niw. We abhor spam. I personnally get about 200 a day and that is after changing my email address a few months ago.Please think along the lines of penalizing spam originators who use free email accounts that they open for 10 minutes while they send out their spam. Penalize all of the websites for porn, gambling, drugs etc. who will benefit from the click through links in the spam. They are the ones responsible for the "fly by night" spam generators.There are so many problems and costs associated with this idea, and so much damage done to consumers and businesses alike, that I feel I must urge you to consider this matter most carefully.Requirement of the use of suppression lists willseriously damage many of the legitimate publications available on the net. My specific concern is for harm to publishers who require permission from the consumer prior to adding them to any list.They're not who CAN-SPAM was designed to put out of business, but this requirement will very likely have that effect.There's also the potential for significant harm toconsumers, because of the problem of properly knowing their intent when they unsubscribe from a list. On top of that, these suppression lists could easily fall into the hands of spammers, leading to more spam instead of less.I was quite surprised at the potential problems thisruling could involve, and urge you in the strongestpossible terms to reconsider its implementation in light of these problems.Respectfully,Eugene J McMahonFL US