
Anti-spam champion can continue to blacklist spammers...
Published: 23 October 2006 17:05 GMT
Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline last week.
Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling them to block junk mail in their incoming email traffic. It was taken to Court by e360 Insight, an email marketing company, which Spamhaus had added to its spam blacklist.
e360 told an Illinois court earlier this month that the spamhaus.org domain should be suspended, after it won a claim for damages against Spamhaus.
But in the Illinois court last Thursday, the judge rejected e360's request for suspension.
Judge Charles Kocoras said that the relief e360 sought was "too broad to be warranted in this case", and that unproportional effects could be caused by suspending Spamhaus' service.
In a court statement, Judge Kocoras said: "The suspension would cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus via its existing domain name, not just those that are in contravention of this court's order."
The judge continued: "While we will not condone or tolerate non-compliance with a valid order of this court, neither will we impose a sanction that does not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct."
Some businesses had been concerned that if the Spamhaus service was suspended, the quantity of spam on the internet could have increased dramatically. Spamhaus claims it is responsible for stopping 50 billion spam messages per day.
Spamhaus is also disputing the $11.7m damages the Illinois court has ordered it to pay, saying the court has no jurisdiction over a UK-based company.
Internet registrar Icann said earlier this month that it would not suspend the Spamhaus domain.
Richard Thurston writes for ZDNet UK
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