Judge ties antispammer's hands
Last modified: May 11, 2004, 2:30 PM PDT
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


A Northern California District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an antispam operation, from interfering with messages sent by alleged junk e-mailer OptInRealBig.com.

The court granted the restraining order May 4, and it is scheduled to reconvene May 20. E-mail server company IronPort Systems, owner of SpamCop, filed an appeal Monday asking the judge to dissolve the order before the hearing date, on the grounds that it breaches first amendment rights and damages the company's operations.

The dispute involves practices of SpamCop, an operator of an antispam blocklist that third-parties reference to block bogus mail. SpamCop fields people's complaints about unwanted mail and their senders and uses that information to list the offending Internet Protocol addresses used to send the messages.


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I'd like to see the spam king waste his money going after all of the blacklist organizations. The G-Lock Spam Combat that I'm using came with 35 blacklists to choose from. I think I'm using 33 of them. There's also the ability to manually add others if you need them.

I can't believe that judge is falling for that crud.