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Home 28 Aug 2007 If WHOIS privacy is a good idea, why is it going nowhere? ICANN ICANN has been wrangling about WHOIS privacy for years. Last week, yet another WHOIS working group ended without making any progress. What's the problem? Actually, there are two: one is that WHOIS privacy is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be, and the other is that so far, nothing in the debate has given any of the parties any incentive to come to agreement. See more ... posted at: 22:07 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/whoispriv.trackback 19 Aug 2007 Spamford Wallace gets sued yet again Email If there were a lifetime achievement award for losing lawsuits for being annoying, Sanford Wallace would be a shoo-in. Fifteen years ago, his junk faxing was a major impetus for the TCPA, the law outlawing junk faxes. Later in the 1990s, his Cyber Promotions set important legal precedents about spam in cases where he lost to Compuserve and AOL. Two years ago, he lost a suit to FTC who sued his Smartbot.net for stuffing spyware onto people's computers. And now, lest anyone think that he's run out of bad ideas, he's back, on the receiving end of a lawsuit from MySpace. See more ... posted at: 22:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spamford.trackback 08 Aug 2007 America's Worst CAN-SPAM Suit Ends Email This post has been withdrawn due to objections from Virtumundo's lawyers. Other comments on this order: Mickey Chandler's Spam Suite Al Iverson's Spam Resource You can find a copy of the judge's order at: http://www.spamsuite.com/webfm_send/126 posted at: 00:06 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/gordonpays.trackback

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