Supreme Court Won't Hear Spam Appeal
| Title: | Supreme Court Won't Hear Spam Appeal (ID: CSD4382) | | Author(s): | Anne Broache (CNET News.com) | | Topics: | CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Filtering, Spam | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case involving the University of Texas (UT) and White Buffalo Ventures, which operates a dating Web site focused on UT students. In 2003, UT officials blocked 59,000 e-mails from LonghornSingles.com, saying that they violated the university's antispam policy. According to officials at the school, the overall volume of spam messages was crippling the institution's servers, and the administration had also received complaints specifically about the LonghornSingles.com e-mails. White Buffalo Ventures had ignored a cease-and-desist letter, prompting the university to block all of its messages. White Buffalo took UT to court, said that its messages complied with all provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act, and argued that the federal law should take precedence over any UT policy. In August, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that argument, saying that the university was within its rights to block the e-mails. | | View this resource: | |
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