Actually, the Department of Justice does. Or did, over the proposed Micro$oft settlement. Forty-five thousand comments. Even though the DoJ had earlier said it would publish them in the Federal Register, they’ve decided that spending an estimated $4MM to do so would not be in the public interest.
So they propose to make the comments available as a Zip file on the web (or via CD, if folks want it that way), and simply build an abstract, listing names and addresses and lines of comment in the Federal Register.
A certain select few — “approximately” 45 — will be printed in full.
I seriously doubt my comments will be in the 45, but it’s kind of cool to think my name will be in the Federal Register anyway.
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