[IP] more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor" <jezor@tourolaw.edu>
Date: October 8, 2006 7:44:49 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend  
spamhaus.org
Reply-To: jezor@tourolaw.edu

Dave,

I'm writing an article on this very subject which I will presenting in
Denmark in December (http://www.iblt.eu), so I've been following this  
case
with some interest.   I'm not surprised by the ruling, nor by Spamhaus'
recalcitrance--I have seen first hand how Spamhaus will threaten to  
block
list an entire hosting company in order to get the host to shut down  
a Web
site Spamhaus has decided is a spammer, and also received caustic e-mail
from Spamhaus when I wrote on behalf of a wrongly blocklisted client.

Improper inclusion in filters and block lists is becoming a huge  
problem for
legitimate communicators, whose messages are neither received nor  
bounced,
but rather absorbed into the ether without notice to either side.  With
everything from mandatory government filings to auction bids to mission
critical announcements being sent via Internet e-mail, those who compile
filters must exercise more care about whom they label as a spammer--the
stakes are just too high.
-------------------
Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor
Assistant Professor of Law and Technology
Director, Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT)
Touro Law Center
300 Nassau Road, Huntington, NY 11743
Tel: 631-421-2244 x412  Fax: 516-977-3001
e-mail: jezor@tourolaw.edu



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