On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:21:12AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 09:46 PM 5/12/04 -0700, jdow wrote: > >I believe the technical term for what these black hole lists are > >doing is "secondary boycott". I believe that is an illegal activity > >in the US. So this suit will be interesting to watch. > > http://www.legal-explanations.com/definitions/secondary-boycott.htm > > Secondary boycotts are in fact illegal in many countries, including the US..
Boycott, in that sense, is called picketing in the UK (and is illegal). Boycotting, in the general sense, is not illegal here as far as I know whether primary or secondary (correction welcomed, of course). > However, unless I'm missing something it's a bit of a stretch to consider > spamcop as generating a secondary boycott based on their practice sending > complaints to upstream providers. > > To be a secondary boycott spamcop would be having to institute a boycott > against the upstream providers, inflicting real financial damage upon them > as pressure to get their downstream to disconnect the spammers. Merely > notifying them of the problem, and even harassing them about it, isn't a > boycott. If the above URL is a complete description, it suggests thar running blacklists would only be "secondary boycotting" if the spammers or their ISPs were on strike or in a labor dispute %-> Oh YES ! Nick Of course IANAL (I don't think Captain Boycott was either !)
