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I haven't a clue as to what you're doing, and with all due respect, I doubt if you do. I consistently use the Net and e-mail everyday. I get hundreds of e-mails that I promptly delete. No, I do not want porn coming into my machine - especially in vivid color and language. However, for the rest of the advertising mail, America is suppose to be "free enterprise". I was requested to send a form comment here, or to add my comments. I am just adding my own comments. They boil down to "The government should stay out of trying to police the Internet." No. I do not like everything I see on it. But there is a tendency by the government, that in order to correct something, they rather "throw the baby out with the bath water." I urge you to exercise caution. The Internet community - both personal and business - is more complex than any other communications industry ever to evolve. Personally, I am not going to go place my name on a registery either for e-mail or the phone industry. If I can not do business on the Net freely and with regards to my privacy, then I won't do business with it at all. And that, my friend is what will happen. You are about to endanger the very goose who laid the golden egg. Let the Internet police itself except in cases of actual crimes and porn, business will get weeded out by the consumers. If we don't like certain ads, we can block them. If we don't want certain mail, we can opt-out. If we want to receive certain mail, we can opt-in. You see, we are already "regulating" ourselves in a method that we consider acceptable to each of us individually. The real culprits are the promoters of porn and the bulk robotic mailers. But legitamate businessess should not be curtailed in trying to regulate those entities. Besides, while you are trying to wade through all of the "legaleese" of e-mail, the porn and adware people have been coming in the back door of browsers and instant messaging utilities and hijacking computers. This is a far more serious issue than spam e-mail. I suggest that if you are not actively using your computer every day in a similar way as the average person in their living room, then you really don't know how your rulings will affect us. Take care of the porn and crime, leave businesses alone. After all, the computer and Internet connection has an "OFF" button. Consumers who use it properly can send their own messages to overbearing and overzealous marketers. A concern Net user - since 1996. Former ISP Doris Newnam *REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION*