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Spamhaus Appeals Possible Shutdown Ruling

Robert McMillan writes on InfoWorld:

The Spamhaus Project has told a U.S. court that it plans to appeal a recent ruling that threatened the volunteer organization with millions of dollars in legal fines and the possible shutdown of a database of known spammers.

The notice was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by lawyers with Jenner & Block, a Chicago law firm that is now representing Spamhaus.

Spamhaus, based in the U.K., has a team of 25 investigators and claims to block between 8 billion and 10 billion e-mail messages per day. Its database is used by several major security vendors, including Microsoft.

The filing marks the group's return to a legal fight against an e-mail marketing company called e360 Insight that Spamhaus had tried its best to ignore.

posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2006 10:45:00 AM