UT: Court OK's blocking of unsolicited e-mails
I couldn't find this story in the Austin American-Statesman, but an AP newswire article, via Boston.com (Thanks to /.), reports that:
The University of Texas didn't violate the constitutional rights of an online dating service when it blocked thousands of unsolicited e-mails, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.
White Buffalo Ventures, which operates LonghornSingles.com, had appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying it had complied with all anti-spam laws.
The company argued that the university violated its constitutional rights by filtering out 59,000 e-mails in 2003. White Buffalo also claimed a federal act that allows certain e-mails superseded the university's anti-spam policy.
The 5th Circuit panel found 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 law requires messages to have a title that correctly states the contents of the e-mail, a valid address and that companies honor requests to unsubscribe.
The court did not need to rule on whether the state university e-mail servers are public or private.
posted by Fergie @ 8/03/2005 03:02:00 PM
1 Comments:
I hadn't realized this issue was still being litigated. I thought it was settled two years ago. (UT won then too.)
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