Roy wrote:
AOL restores Harris Interactive access
Harris Interactive (HPOL: news, msgs) said Tuesday it has dropped federal charges against America Online (AOL: news, msgs). In a lawsuit brought two weeks ago, Harris accused AOL and other Internet service providers of harming its business by blocking Harris' e-mails to registered participants of its opinion surveys. The block was instituted after an e-mail monitoring service, Mail Abuse Prevention System, identified Harris as a voluminous sender of unsolicited, commercial e-mail. AOL restored Harris Interactive's communication capabilities with its respondents who have AOL addresses. Litigation against remaining defendants in the case will continue, Harris said.
AOL didn't cave in. Reuters and BusinessWire ran a PRESS RELEASE from Harris, and traceroutes to AOL still showed AboveNet as of yesterday. The "news" article didn't contain any quotes from AOL, AboveNet, MAPS or anyone besides Harris. Harris's stock is in a lot of trouble and my bet is that they lied... they posted a "clarification" yesterday, but they're still full of crap... -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET