Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008 Honorable Commissioners, Efforts to curb the problem of unsolicited bulk email are important to ALL of the American Public as well as others worldwide. However, concerns regarding the proposed requirement for merchants to maintain suppression lists indicates an unacceptable burden to commerce and restrains the consumer also. The depth of problems and vast costs associated with the proposed implementation of this rule, including but not limited to the disruption of ongoing legitimate business, increased costs for small business growth, economic hardships to business entry into our economy, higher costs of product production ( where many of our major industies have already been abdicated overseas - including a quiet abandonment of our core textile and garment industries, etc.) and so much irreparable damage done to honest consumers and businesses, that I feel I must urge you to consider the long term affects of this proposal on the most broadening and fastest growing segment of our American economy with great deliberation. Requirement of the use of suppression lists will cause serious and irreparable harm to many of the legitimate business' publications on the Internet. My specific concern is for extreme damaging inflicted upon business' and consumers at large, when business' require permission from the consumer prior to adding them to any list. Business' who actively receive specific requests for information and requests to terminate any future email according to the terms and condition regarding the original request to receive email would be subject to unusually cruel and cost prohibitive measures to their business'. Consumers, likewise are punished. Their cost to receive any information, the timeliness of any information received including medical or otherwise, would be delayed and encumbered beyond reasonable intent to protect our public and our business economy. Legitimate business' are not, and should never be, targeted by CAN-SPAM. However the curent proposal will, in my opinion, create unsurmountable barriers and costs resulting in closings of many growing business' and a decrase in services each consumer should have access to in a timely manner. 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. Additionally, suppression lists could be hacked or otherwise be accessed by unlawful spammers, thereby actually tempting them to send more unlawful SPAM and result in harm instead of help to consumers and possibly an unwarranted increase in liability for business'. I am overwhelmed at the potential problems this proposal could create, and passionately urge you in the strongest possible terms to not implement this proposal. Show the American Public, which you and I enjoy the membership in, that you are aware of the potential long term disasterous and anti-economic growth which shall no doubt result from this rule and that you desire to reconsider its affects on all of us. Respectfully, Jim Robinson Huntsville, Alabama USA