Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008 To the Commissioners, I wholly support the efforts you are undertaking to curb spam or Unsolicited Bulk Email. I am very concerned about the 'suppression list' regulations being proposed. Please consider these regulations and requirements very carefully.The harm that a suppression list requirement could do is staggering to many legitimate small businesses currently doing business on the net. An area of specific concern for me is the ezine publisher or newsletter publisher who is already requiring their subscribers to verify that they want to be on their list and providing full contact details,disclaimers,three ways to unsubscribe both within their emails and on their websites. These are not the people that the CanSpam act was designed to put out of business. I feel that sweeping the legitimate marketers and publishers into the same group as those who send bulk email by the thousands,several times a day is wrong and will do serious damage to their businesses.Many will be forced to shut down under the weight and costs of complying to additional regulations. There's also the potential for significant harm to consumers, 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 this ruling could involve, and urge you in the strongest possible terms to reconsider its implementation in light of these problems, Respectfully, Margaret Waletzko Wisconsin USA