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Re: AOL caves in to spammers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Fulton)
Wed Aug 9 11:38:51 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:37:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Fulton <rich@nullroute.net>
To: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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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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