Comments:

My comments are on the National Do Not email Registry and the effectiveness and enforecement of the CAN_SPAM act. My input is simple: STOP SPAM!!!!! If I want anything I will go looking for it. Do not get into my space without my permission. I paid for the time, hookup, computer, etc., but I did not offer it free to anyone to advertize their stuff to me. I'll gladly sign up on a registry. I do not want to have to opt out of all the stuff that comes in. Just stop it at the door. I'll look for what I want, opt in, try it and then opt out if I don't want it any more. So simple! Most of the junk is so putrid and offensive. I don't want it near my computer. Yet if I respond to the phoney opt-out messages, I just get more and now my name is being sold to many other filth mongers. Through no fault of my own, a cursery search shows me as a reader of pornographic websites. I feel violated and raped by this!!!!!! Can the government monitor and enforce the CAN-SPAM Act? Probably no better than any of the millions of other useless laws that have been passed. I have not confidence in that ability. Keep it simple to inact, monitor, and enforce. The junk mail and unsolisited phone calls have been curtailed exceptionally well since I registered to not receive anything. I belive the same can happen for email. Today I opened my email to find 609 emails from the weekend. Out of that only 7 were legitimate business communications. I have three spam filters between me and my original server who hosts my business website. Still I get this much offensive, very intrusive, sexual pictures and other vendors. It must stop! My business is suffering from the loss time it takes to sort this trash, the inadvertant loss of ligitimate email that doesn't make it through the filters, and the distraction caused by the uninvited filth and grunge. I do not think we need layers and layers of laws to stop email. It is so simple. None is accepatable with out permission. If I want to find something I can conduct a search and orer anything I want. No one has to shove it in my face day after day. If a new vendor comes on line with legitimate goods I may want then let's develop a new products clearing house where we can search out the new products and ideas. The current browers do a remarkable job of finding all that I have needed. Perhaps they could have a new products area. Yes, lets have a national email registry. ASPA! Make the infringments serious enough that there is a low possibility of offenders taking the chance to send unsolicitied email. Jacqueline Miller