Spammen is no law
A spammer, that an American university accused had for the installing of spamfilters, got of the court wrong. Spammen is no law, judged the right.
LonghornSingles. com, an online datingservice, steered with the regularity of the bell unsollicited masses e-mailmessages to the thousand students of and co-workers of the University of Texas.
Even after a warning of the university, the spammer had to stop from no: the university mailboxen remained belaagd become with advertising for the datingservicen. The Texaanse university installed finally an e-mailfilter, that at the same time all messages of the datingservice blocked.
The spammer meant to suffer through here damage and decided the university at to complain because of the botherring of the going out opinion- oh irony - the breaking of the American antispamwetgeving that borders puts about the extent in which e-mails are filtered may.
In first construction, the datingsite all zero got has on rekest, but now also a higher court the spammer afgeserveerd. Spammen is no law, judged the rechbank in occupation.
According to the judge is the Can-Spam Act, meant to filter the American antispamwet, not to prohibit internetproviders unwanted commercile e-mailmessages away. The court joined there source at closed that the Texaanse universities the spam on someone else manner wanted to can stop then through at the same time a complete internet domain to block.
Notably in the whole story also the manner is on which the datingsite e-mailaddresssen in the possession got. In 2003, the business served a so-called freedom or information request In by the university. Such request obliges to give public services particular information free.
It is a skilful aid for journalists entry to get till specific data, but also spammers there uses can make from. And that did the datingsite also: the collected so thousand e-mailaddresssen in connection with the university, that it then belaagde with invitations.
Declan McCullagh, CNet