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CAN-SPAM ANPR This “bill” new law what ever misses the mark by a long shot, you with endless convoluted sentences seem to be attempting to make it very difficult to describe who, besides me owns my email address. Very simply I believe that I am the sole owner of my email address and in a free society I should be able to have control of it. The FTC the SPAM’ers Believe that they have rights to my email that I did not grant. Your addition of ‘friendly forwarders’ is an escape clause to benefit the SPAM’ers so they can find a “friend” , whom I have never in my life came in close contact use my email as their own personal property. A friend is some who is known to me and has a email address that I could respond to, not some SPAM’ers employee, who changes his email address each and every time he forward a ‘friendly” message. If this was a free country, and if I had ownership of my email no one would be able to take it from me with out my permission. If for example I bought a program like Adobe I would be free to decide if I wanted to receive additional messages from that company. They would accept my choice. It would seem that the FTC is working very closely with the SPAM’ers to write a rule so complicated that no one but them can understand what is going on…..The FTC will tell the story that they “clamped” down on the SPAM’ers and the SPAM’ers will continue unabated, using my property as they wish. The only honest way this can be done is that no one can be allowed to come into my home and leave things with out my permission! Every email should come from some one a permanent address, no honest person changes the email address each and every time they send out a few million “friendly forwards” . The dishonest way to do this is to write hundreds of convoluted words, like you have, and make no substantive change in the status quo. I know that the SPAM’ers send more money and buy more drinks for the congress that do I and so I fully expect that instead of 600 to 800 unwanted emails I receive each week that as soon as the FTC gets this thing worked out I will be getting well over a 1,000 weekly. Thanks for giving me a chance to speak out, Though I expect the effort will be counterproductive … James Meehan