RSSSpamhaus Domain Shutdown Request Denied
By Ed Oswald | Published October 20, 2006, 11:00 AM
The U.S. Judge presiding over the lawsuit between Spamhaus and marketing company e360insight denied a motion to have the spam-fighting organization's domain suspended, saying the shuttering of the site does "not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct."
e360insight asked the court earlier this month to order ICANN and Tucows to suspend the group's domain name pending payment of the judgement against it. While ICANN said it did not have jurisdiction to make such a move, it was successful in getting Spamhaus into the courtroom.
Spammers have sued Spamhaus several times in U.S. court, but it typically ignores the rulings. Instead, it invites the plaintiffs to sue them in U.K. court, but says they will not because spam is illegal in the U.K. and the losing party pays court costs.
Now not taking any chances, the group plans to fight the ruling by attempting to prove U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over its operations. "We are working with lawyers to find a way to both appeal/contest the ruling and stop further nonsense by this spammer," it has said.
e360insight had no immediate comment on the judge's latest action, but has said in statements that it " fully complies with or exceeds all federal requirements and is doing business legally and responsibly in the U.S."
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|...saying the shuttering of the site does "not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct."
Given that wisdom, I don't think the judge will have any trouble throwing out the case and maybe even making e360insight pay for wasting the court's time.
There's hope after all.
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|I am sorry any company that is called e360insight sounds like it would get spam email. I feel Spamhaus has EVERY right to manage a blacklist, and put whom ever they want on said blacklist.
Users and Customers will either USE their service or won't, if they put to many people like e360insight ( lets say they didn't spam ) on their list then people will stop using said blacklist.
This is how the greatest country ( US ), we the customers decided how the market will run, if we don't like something we do not use it or buy it.
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|now that the US Court has done something in FAVOR of Spamhaus, I am waiting for all the same comments to say that the US and its courts are all *#&#$(*&, etc. and waiting for everyone to call me a moron and retarded
/me waiting... waiting ...
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|Can someone reply who understands how to use the English language please.
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|Maybe you just can't read. Everything he said was grammatically correct. Granted, the wording was a little confusing, but there were no errors except no capitalization at the beginning and no ending period.
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|> Users and Customers will either USE their
> service or won't
However, ISPs _have_ to use spamhaus and other blacklists, and it's still not enough. Sporadic errors in a list _are_ hard to deal with.
> This is how the greatest country ( US ),
> we the customers decided
Notice that it wouldn't have worked if spamhaus were based in such a country. Perhaps, it would have been greater to decide a better policy for spam.
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