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Judge won't suspend Spamhaus Project URL

A federal judge presiding over a spam dispute rejected a marketing company's request to suspend the domain name of an anti-spam group that ignored an $11.7 million judgment against it. I think it's great that The Spamhaus Project is taking a stand, but I hope they don't get nailed for it. I just tried to visit www.spamhaus.org and it was down, so maybe something did happen to the URL over the weekend.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles P. Kocoras denied a proposed motion from e360 Insight, which sued the Spamhaus Project over its "black list" of spammers. Wheeling, Ill.-based e360 Insight contends it is improperly on the list because it is a direct marketer that does not send unsolicited e-mail. The Spamhaus Project did not bother defending itself and refused to recognize Kocoras' $11.7 million judgment against it, saying the court had no jurisdiction over the U.K.-based group. So e360 Insight asked that the judge order the spamhaus.org domain suspended.

Posted by | Sun, Oct 22, 2006 - 07:11 PM