Tags: Catherine Forsythe , court ruling , legislation , spam The spammers earned millions from sending traffic to porn sites. via Flying Hamster
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(See the tag “E360” for more background on this story. In short, E360 Insight has obtained a court order forbidding anti-spam organization Spamhaus from listing E360 or any of its properties as a spammer.)

In April, I commented on E360’s request that Spamhaus be forced to remove listings based entirely on E360’s word that they owned the listed domain. Spamhaus noted that this would in effect allow E360 to sell affiliations to any spammer that wanted to be removed.

A week ago, I observed that E360 seemed to be advertising just such a service.

Well, as of today, Spamhaus has filed notice to the judge that E360 has done exactly that.

On June 15, 2007, counsel for e360 wrote counsel for Spamhaus and demanded that Spamhaus remove from its list of known spammers certain IP addresses owned by a company named Virtumundo. … e360s June 15 letter asserts that Virtumundo is a customer of and doing business with e360, and that e360 has contracted with Virtumundo for network management and eMessaging services…

The service agreement between E360 and Virtumundo makes it clear that neither company has any ownership interest in the other, and that E360 is merely acting as a service provider. One cannot help but suspect that the “service” E360 is actually offering is the removal of Spamhaus record SBL41635.

Full text of Spamhaus’ notice to the court, and their exhibits, including a copy of the agreement between E360 and Virtumundo can be found at Spamsuite.

Update: Direct magazine (email marketers’ trade magazine) has an article about this, entitled “Linhardt Turns Spamhaus Court Order into New Service“.
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“While today’s spam filters have improved to catch a larger percentage of junk mail, the threat of spam never really goes away”

Don’t want to return to a spam-filled inbox after a summer break? McAfee Inc. released tips today to help e-mail users unsubscribe and block unwanted e-mail. According to research from McAfee SiteAdvisor, … via Dark Reading
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Spam and scams are a part of the internet world we’ll have to tolerate for the foreseeable future. via The Mercury
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Canned by CAN-SPAMTwo men who ran a spam operation to promote pornographic websites had the book thrown at them today. A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona convicted Jeffrey Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California and James Schaffer, 41 of Paradise Valley, Arizona of eight counts, including conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and transportation of obscene materials.Original post […]
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Two men who ran a spam operation to promote pornographic websites had the book thrown at them today. via Channel Register
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CFP: ISOI III (a DA workshop)=============================Introduction————CFP information and current speakers below.ISOI 3 (Internet Security Operations and Intelligence) will be held inWashington DC this August the 27th, 28th.This time around the folks at US-CERT (Department of Homeland Security -DHS) are hosting. Sunbelt Software is running the after-party dinner.We only have a partial agenda at this time […]
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(See the tag “E360” for more background on this story. In short, E360 Insight has obtained a court order forbidding anti-spam organization Spamhaus from listing E360 or any of its properties as a spammer.)

In April, I commented on E360’s request that Spamhaus be forced to remove listings based entirely on E360’s word that they owned the listed domain. Spamhaus noted that this would in effect allow E360 to sell affiliations to any spammer that wanted to be removed.

A week ago, I observed that E360 seemed to be advertising just such a service.

Well, as of today, Spamhaus has filed notice to the judge that E360 has done exactly that.

On June 15, 2007, counsel for e360 wrote counsel for Spamhaus and demanded that Spamhaus remove from its list of known spammers certain IP addresses owned by a company named Virtumundo. … e360s June 15 letter asserts that Virtumundo is a customer of and doing business with e360, and that e360 has contracted with Virtumundo for network management and eMessaging services…

The service agreement between E360 and Virtumundo makes it clear that neither company has any ownership interest in the other, and that E360 is merely acting as a service provider. One cannot help but suspect that the “service” E360 is actually offering is the removal of Spamhaus record SBL41635.

Full text of Spamhaus’ notice to the court, and their exhibits, including a copy of the agreement between E360 and Virtumundo can be found at Spamsuite.
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“I think it’s a profoundly important decision applying the Fourth Amendment to electronic privacy rights of citizens”

Federal investigators overstepped constitutional bounds by searching e-mails without a warrant during the fraud investigation of the head of an herbal supplement company known for its “Smiling Bob” ads, a … via The Repository
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Two men who ran a spam operation to promote pornographic websites had the book thrown at them today. A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona convicted Jeffrey Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California and James Schaffer, 41 of Paradise Valley, Arizona of eight counts, including conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and transportation of obscene materials.
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