more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org
David Farber <[email protected]>
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Begin forwarded message: From: "Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor" <[email protected]> Date: October 8, 2006 7:44:49 PM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IP] ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org Reply-To: [email protected] Dave, I'm writing an article on this very subject which I will presenting in Denmark in December (http://www.iblt.eu), so I've been following this case with some interest. I'm not surprised by the ruling, nor by Spamhaus' recalcitrance--I have seen first hand how Spamhaus will threaten to block list an entire hosting company in order to get the host to shut down a Web site Spamhaus has decided is a spammer, and also received caustic e-mail from Spamhaus when I wrote on behalf of a wrongly blocklisted client. Improper inclusion in filters and block lists is becoming a huge problem for legitimate communicators, whose messages are neither received nor bounced, but rather absorbed into the ether without notice to either side. With everything from mandatory government filings to auction bids to mission critical announcements being sent via Internet e-mail, those who compile filters must exercise more care about whom they label as a spammer--the stakes are just too high. ------------------- Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor Assistant Professor of Law and Technology Director, Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) Touro Law Center 300 Nassau Road, Huntington, NY 11743 Tel: 631-421-2244 x412 Fax: 516-977-3001 e-mail: [email protected]