6 Jul
2000
6 Jul
'00
10:11 p.m.
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:09:26 EDT, Steve Sobol said:
The problem is, although judges are usually pretty good at making the right decision, there's no guarantee that if this issue went to trial, MAPS would win.
It was once explained to me, totally off the record, by <you know who you are>, that the biggest legal issue was that although MAPS just provides data, and the providers use that data to make decisions, there was a legal question of whether that constituted "conspiracy to engage in restraint of trade" against the sites listed. The problem is, of course, that the *combination* of MAPS and a provider *is* engaged in a conspiracy to restrain the spammers... ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech