On 4/11/2011 7:07 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Stan Hoeppner:
Have you heard of a case of an SMTP sender suing an SMTP receiver for
message rejection, and winning the case?
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.lasso?ref=3
They sued, and the US judge awarded them US$11.7 million for damages.
Wietse
It's worth nothing though that SpamHaus treated it as a farce, and while
it certainly cost legal billing time, the judgement itself has zero
weight. Emphasis mine below. Maybe with other countries the situation is
different? [Off topic warning to self and others...]
"The obtaining of a US default judgment against a UK organization did
not however have the expected outcome for the spammer, **as default
judgments from US courts are not recognized in the United Kingdom**...
"Spamhaus is however concerned at how far a US court will go before
asking itself if it has jurisdiction or evidence to back up an
allegation of jurisdiction before issuing orders to foreign entities,
and is intending to appeal the absurd Illinois ruling in order to stamp
out further attempts by spammers to abuse the US court system in this way."
-DB
