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Blast from the Past: CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions (1997)

Let’s take a little stroll down email memory lane. In the pre-CAN-SPAM era, when dial-up was still a thing and some people paid by the minute for internet access (remember that?), spammers found fertile ground in wide-open inboxes. But that also meant early legal battles were setting the tone for what was and wasn’t okay in the online world. One very important early wins against spam came in…
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RNC v. Google: A Google win, but a terrible ruling

As reported by Reuters and many others: "A U.S. judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit accusing Alphabet's Google of intentionally misdirecting the political party's email messages to users' spam folders." Hurray, Google's still …

Spam Resource Spotlight: Jay Fink

Jay Fink is a spam investigator, recently featured in the news for an interesting (and frustrating) reason: The state of California, specifically the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, alleged that Jay wasn't qualified to be a spam investigator, becau…

Spam History: The flowers.com joe job and lawsuit

This certainly wasn’t the first instance of spam , but it might be the first instance of a spam related lawsuit. It all began on April 1, 1997, when the owners of the flowers.com domain name , Tracy LaQuey Parker and Patrick Parker, suddenly began to receive thousands of unwant…

Eric Goldman: RNC v. Google and Section 230

Eric Goldman is Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute, at Santa Clara University. And he blogs about legal stuff, often stuff relating to the internet and privacy. I find his blog a must read. So he's a good guy to turn to whe…

Spammers and scammers and IP address space, oh my!

IPv4 IP address space is just about used up, as the unused pool of IP addresses waited to be doled out is no more . And practically speaking, almost all email sending lives in IPv4 space. (That's an oversimplification -- a few ISPs do support it, but frankly, I would not ca…

Breaking news: New FTC proposed settlement over CAN-SPAM violation

This is an important one to share, because it highlights what can happen if you try too hard to characterize your emails as transactional, when they're probably not. Leave out the unsub link and see what happens -- you can end up with a poor sending reputation, a pile of sp…

Google hires law firm Perkins Coie to fight RNC's spam filter lawsuit

Mike Scarcella, reporting for Reuters : Google has hired law firm Perkins Coie to help defend it against the RNC's spam filtering lawsuit . "While Perkins long has provided legal services to the Democratic National Committee in matters of political law, and to politica…

GOP ignoring proffered Gmail spam filter bypass?

What's up with that Gmail political email pilot program, previously revealed by Axios and discussed by my friends Jennifer Nespola Lantz and T ravis Murray ( and me , and others)? Strangely enough, according to the Washington Post, Democrats are flocking to it, and Repub…

Meet the Texas man who has made $75,000 suing telemarketers

Dan Graham of Austin, TX has an interesting side hustle, going after telemarketers violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) . I'm glad he's doing it, but the problem with this sort of thing has got to be how time consuming it is. I already have a f…

Proofpoint: Facebook, stop taking our domains away!

ZDNet's Catalin Cimpanu provides an overview of how internet security company  Proofpoint is suing Facebook , looking to stop Facebook from using UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution) requests to wrest away certain Proofpoint-owned domain names being used for phishi…

Holomaxx Link Roundup

In addition to my own post mentioning the lawsuit , a number of other wise folks have commented on the Holomax lawsuit(s) against Microsoft and friends. None of whom seem to think Holomaxx has much of a chance of winning when going up against the ISPs. Ken Magill: A HolomaXx W…

Holomaxx suing Microsoft, Others

From TechEye.net: [Email sender Holomaxx is alleging that] “Microsoft knowingly relies on faulty automated filters and equally faulty third party information to identify purported spam emails,” said the suit. “Even after Holomaxx informed Microsoft that it was not sending spam …

Spamhaus Case: e360 Award Slashed to $27k

Venkat Balasubramani has the story over on Circle ID. Once upon a time, e360 was able to convince a judge that $11 million was accurately reflective of their actual losses. Spamhaus challenged, and David Lindhardt apparently wasn't up to that challenge, being slow to respon…

Tagged.com Wins Spam Lawsuit

Laura Atkins hipped me to this report from SPAMFighter about Tagged.com winning a lawsuit against a spammer, somebody who was "victimizing members of Tagged.com by dispatching spam e-mails that contained web-links directing users to a dating site." Blah blah blah, s…

Breaking: Goodmail Sued for Patent Infringement

Laura Atkins writes, "Late last week RPost sued Goodmail for infringing two patents. One patent authenticates content and delivery of documents. The second verifies the message was received by the recipient." Read all about it over at Word to the Wise.

SCOTUS Declines Review of VA Anti-Spam Law Case

" The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to examine how far states can go to restrict unsolicited e-mails in efforts to block spammers from bombarding computer users." Read about it on CNN.com . Many smart people have already pointed out to me that the net effect …

Do you want to fund the lawsuit?

Mickey Chandler asks, " Do you want to fund the lawsuit? " Meaning, if you're splitting the hair very thin to make the case that what you're doing *must* be legally compliant, ask yourself: Do you really want to be that edge case that gets pulled into court? I…