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Site Claims $3.5M Damages From Spam Blacklist
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:13:51 GMT
It should be interesting to see how _this_ plays out. Brian McWilliams writes over on the Spam Kings blog: [snip] Richard M. Scoville, editor of a site called the Free Speech Store, is suing the operators of the Abusive Hosts Block List (AHBL) for $3.525 million. On December 17, Scoville got a Texas county court to issue a temporary restraining order, forcing the AHBL to remove his site's IP address (71.40.8.100 - Road Runner Commercial) from its anti-spam blocklist until the case is litigated. I haven't seen the complaint yet, but Scoville apparently alleges that the AHBL operators have caused him "emotional distress" and "continuing damages to personal business credit," among other harms. Scoville has apparently been on a personal vendetta against one of the AHBL operators, Brian Bruns. There are currently some 152 articles at Scoville's site that mention Bruns. Like all the other articles at FreeSpeechStore.com, you'll have to pay to view them. (As Scoville has explained, "Speech is Free, only information or data has a cost.") [snip] http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/site_claims_35m_damages_from_s.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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