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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:16:07 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Gerald Shifrin <gerald.shifrin () mci com> Date: January 12, 2006 6:20:52 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] Supreme Court Lets University Block Spam Isn't there any concern that the dating service legally obtained the student's email address from the university? I wonder what other information was "legally" distributed? -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:44 PM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] Supreme Court Lets University Block Spam Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: January 12, 2006 6:30:25 AM EST To: Dave <dave () farber net>, cyberia <CYBERIA-L () LISTSERV AOL COM> Subject: Supreme Court Lets University Block Spam http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=182235 Court Lets University of Texas Block Spam Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 6:26 AM EST Court Lets Univ. of Texas Block Spam The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a dispute between the University of Texas and an online dating service upset that the school blocked thousands of unsolicited e-mails. The high court let stand a federal appeals court's ruling that UT did not violate the constitutional rights of White Buffalo Ventures when it blocked 59,000 e-mails in 2003. White Buffalo Ventures, which operates LonghornSingles.com, said it had complied with all anti-spam laws and argued that a federal act that allows certain e-mails superseded the university's anti-spam policy. A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in August that the federal anti-spam law, CAN-SPAM, does not pre-empt the university's policy and that the policy is permissible under the First Amendment. The Austin-based service had legally obtained the addresses from the university, but the university started blocking the e-mail messages saying White Buffalo was part of a larger spam problem that had crashed the computer system. The university said it was also responding to complaints from students and faculty. At the time, UT issued a cease and desist order, but White Buffalo refused to comply. So UT blocked all the e-mail messages from White Buffalo's IP address. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_dating_spam-- "We've got the hatemongers who literally hate this president, and that
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