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Saturday, December 04, 2004

Go Microsoft!!

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041203-103854-2513r.htm

Seattle, WA, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Microsoft Corp. has filed class action
lawsuits against vendors of sexually explicit commercial e-mail, the Seattle Post-Intelligence said Friday.

In seven suits filed Thursday in Washington state, the software company alleged the purveyors violated federal restrictions on pornographic spam, or unsolicited e-mail messages. "Spam is annoying, but this kind of spam is truly offensive," said Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement attorney.

The defendants in the suit were identified only as "John Does," while the evidence from the case came from messages sent to clients of Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service. According to Microsoft, the messages violate the Federal Trade Commission's CAN-SPAM Act, which requires sexually oriented commercial e-mail messages to identify themselves as such in the message's subject line.
Washington Times


If anyone can take them down it is Microsoft. I found this story on Powerpundit.