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Judge Rules In Favor Of Spamhaus
Waylon writes "U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project. e360 Insight responded on its homepage, saying the judge's ruling was 'a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S. citizens'. As opposed to shutting down a voluntary service which tries to mitigate the millions of unsolicited emails that e360 Insight pumps out every single day." From the article: "In his order, Judge Kocoras wrote that the relief e360insight sought is 'too broad to be warranted in this case' and that suspending the domain name would 'cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus, not just those that are in contravention' of the default judgment. He also called e360insight's motion one that 'does not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct.'"
most Email administrators will just point to the RBL and be done with it. My experience is that the "average" email admin is a 40 year old windows PC guy that got stuck with it. They don't care about the mails or users anymore, just keeping the boss happy and following the company policy about blocking "bad things". Hence, when a vaild email gets put on one of these lists by somebody with a bug up their ass and a bad day, it's very hard to actually get email from them ever again. I'm not condoning spamming, but there isn't really a good review process with the RBL maintainiers that diferentiates between Spamming and nusance emails... it's become a beaurocratic mob mentality, that spam makes email administrators' jobs a little harder, so they rebel by punishing users and senders with a "what the hell" attitide.