AOL caves in to spammers
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.
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
Steve Sobol wrote:
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...
The three rules of spamfighting from news.admin.net-abuse.email apply here, I think... 1) Spammers lie. 2) If you think a spammer is telling the truth, see 1) 3) Spammers are stupid. -- 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
Steve Sobol wrote:
1) Spammers lie. 2) If you think a spammer is telling the truth, see 1)
Oh How True. :) http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.080800/202212916.htm Contrary to our earlier release, Harris Interactive's dropping of AOL from the litigation is not contingent upon any agreement between AOL and Harris Interactive regarding the delivery of Harris Interactive's e-mail to its 1.3 million AOL members; however, Harris Interactive believes that it is now able to fully communicate with all of its registered respondents who have AOL e-mail addresses.
not quite.. 6461 1668 10593, (received-only) On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, 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.
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