MISC> GEN: Some good news related to e-mail spam

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From: "Peter Milbury" <pmilbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:  <LM_NET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:18:38 -0500
Subject: GEN: Some good news related to e-mail spam
 
>From Edupage, JANUARY 24, 2003

MONSTERHUT LOSES SPAM CASE
A victory against spam was scored when New York State Supreme Court
Justice Lottie E. Wilkins banned MonsterHut, a Niagara Falls-based
company, from sending unsolicited e-mails. Accused of sending around
500 million unwanted commercial e-mails, MonsterHut told recipients who
complained that they had requested the solicitations through an "opt
in" feature. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued MonsterHut on
behalf of roughly 750,000 Internet users who, since March 2001, had
tried and failed to get off MonsterHut's e-mail lists. MonsterHut
claimed that it had obtained "third-party, permission-based"
agreements, which amounts to having acquired e-mail addresses from
other organizations that had received permission to send ads. Judge
Wilkins determined that MonsterHut had "not offered any proof or legal
basis to demonstrate that their practice conforms with industry-wide
accepted 'opt in' protocols" and barred MonsterHut from further
"fraudulent, deceptive and illegal acts and practices."
Wired News, 23 January 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57363,00.html

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School Librarian/CA TeleMentor, Chico HS, Chico, CA
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