On Friday, 26 April 2002 Bill Cole might have said:
>At 7:42 AM -0600 4/26/02, LuKreme imposed structure on a
> stream of electrons, yielding:
>>On Thursday, 25 April 2002 Bill Cole might have said:
>>
>>>At 1:26 PM -0600 4/25/02, LuKreme imposed structure on a
>>>stream of electrons, yielding:
>>>>At 12:12 4/25/2002 -0700 Dan MacDonald wrote:
>>>>>The argument that a well run, publicly available
>>>>>blacklist(s) is preferable to this system is compelling.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, but with the spammers taking legal action and,
>>>>absurdly, the courts siding with them, it makes the whole
>>>> RBL thing much more difficult.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure what you are talking about. There has never
>>> been
>>>a lawsuit over RBL-style blacklists which has been decided
>>> in a court.
>>
>>There have been lawsuits from spammers against ISPs that
>> blocked their spam. AOL, for one was sued and lost to a
>> spammer.
>
>Really?!? If you can find a citation, I'd really like to look
> into that. I know that AOL has had a lot of suits against
> spammers, but I wasn't aware of them losing any.
I suppose it depends on how you define losing. Lifting the blocks as
part of a settlement I consider losing.
I seem to recal one spammer outfit (Yesmail?) sued to prevent MAPS from
listing their servers. I don't know the final resolution of that, but
there was at least a restraining order preventing MAPS from listing the
spammer's hosts. This was the specific instance I was thinking of where
the courts sided with the spammers against an RBL.
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you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
-- with Apologies to Antoine
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