[IP] Supreme Court Lets University Block Spam
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From: Randall <rvh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 12, 2006 6:30:25 AM EST
To: Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, cyberia <CYBERIA-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Supreme Court Lets University Block Spam
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Court Lets University of Texas Block Spam
Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 6:26 AM EST
Court Lets Univ. of Texas Block Spam
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a dispute
between the University of Texas and an online dating service upset that
the school blocked thousands of unsolicited e-mails.
The high court let stand a federal appeals court's ruling that UT did
not violate the constitutional rights of White Buffalo Ventures when it
blocked 59,000 e-mails in 2003.
White Buffalo Ventures, which operates LonghornSingles.com, said it had
complied with all anti-spam laws and argued that a federal act that
allows certain e-mails superseded the university's anti-spam policy.
A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in August that the
federal anti-spam law, CAN-SPAM, does not pre-empt the university's
policy and that the policy is permissible under the First Amendment.
The Austin-based service had legally obtained the addresses from the
university, but the university started blocking the e-mail messages
saying White Buffalo was part of a larger spam problem that had crashed
the computer system.
The university said it was also responding to complaints from students
and faculty.
At the time, UT issued a cease and desist order, but White Buffalo
refused to comply. So UT blocked all the e-mail messages from White
Buffalo's IP address.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_dating_spam
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