knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
|  So it's still OK if I blacklist them right? Pphh...
I've blacklisted their domain at the firewall level for my companies, so why don't they sue me next? Probably because I still have 20 MB of the "junk" e-mail they send. I don't know anyone at the companies that have signed up, they asked me to block it all, go figure.
But on the flip side, Spamhaus is a service that that those who control the e-mail servers, choose to use. I don't use them, but if I wanted to, that's my business. While I don't have all the details of this court hearing, I still am at a loss of how a case like this can go from start to finish with such a result? I bet Microsoft isn't a big of Firefox or Opera, but I don't see them suing these companies because they both claim to have a better web experience?
So who's next? Spybot Search & Destroy removes a lot of spyware and adware from companies that claim to be innocent. |
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Raptor
Not a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
London, ON
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
·Bell Sympatico
| said by knightmb  :I still am at a loss of how a case like this can go from start to finish with such a result? 360 filed suit against Spamhaus, they laughed, and didn't show up to the court hearing in the US, so default judgement went to 360. Apparently, they're chalking it up as a decisive win.
I say whatever, give them default judgement as that is how the system works, but as for any sort of actual payout, damages or actions, the judge should have some common sense and overrule and say GTFO to e360. Or does the winning side get the exact penalties it was suing for?
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AnonymousPerson
@optonline.net | No, the judgement does not go by default to the person that appears in court. Rather, he has to argue his case effectively enough to convince the judge that he is correct and then the judgement goes to him. Apparently e360insight did just that. |
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davisx
join:2005-01-06
| "Re: So it's still OK if I blacklist them right? Pphh...
No, the judgement does not go by default to the person that appears in court. Rather, he has to argue his case effectively enough to convince the judge that he is correct and then the judgement goes to him. Apparently e360insight did just that."
So basically the judge is f*cking idiot?
In a way i do hope that the Illinois government oversteps its bounds and ICANN somehow punishes spamhaus. It would be the end of US control of ICANN. |
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AnonymousPerson
@optonline.net | How? Will the world go to war with the US for exercising its authority over its own companies? Really, such a notion is absurd. |
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sweintz
Premium
join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
| reply to AnonymousPerson
said by AnonymousPerson :
No, the judgement does not go by default to the person that appears in court. Rather, he has to argue his case effectively enough to convince the judge that he is correct and then the judgement goes to him. Apparently e360insight did just that.
Well, when there is no opposing argument...
BTW, e360 seems to have committed perjury when they stated in their affidavit to the court that Spamhaus does business in Illinois.
e360 are some seriously bad spammers. They will be getting theirs shortly... or so I have heard... |
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