In 2006, e360 Insight sued Spamhaus, an anti-spam organisation, for blacklisting its domains.
Court Answer: e360Insight vs. The Spamhaus Project
Updated
2006-09-14
A SLAPP lawsuit filed in an Illinois (United States) court by David Linhardt (aka e360 Insight LLC) against The Spamhaus Project Ltd., a British-based non-profit organization over which the US court had no jurisdiction, went predictably to default judgement when Spamhaus did not accept U.S. jurisdiction.
Spamhaus firmly stands by its position that Linhardt is a spammer (i.e: “a sender of unsolicited bulk email”), Spamhaus has a large evidence archive of spam sent by Linhardt and spam advertising Linhardt’s website www.bargaindepot.net, sent to Spamtraps and non-existent users, including spam sent by Linhardt to a number of Spamhaus own investigators. Plus Spamhaus has many complaints from Internet users ready to testify they never opted-in to any such list and were being spammed by Linhardt/e360. (see samples of e360 spam below)
Spamhaus additionally has samples of spams advertising www.bargaindepot.net sent, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, with false routing information, from compromised computers on ADSL lines in Vietnam, China, Korea, Taiwan and Norway.
Spamhaus also stands by the absolute right, under the European Convention on Human Rights, of Spamhaus’ users to refuse access to their private mailboxes on their private networks to senders of unsolicited bulk email or indeed any unwanted email, a right established also in U.S. law by Chief Justice Burger, U.S. Supreme Court, who ruled: “The asserted right of a mailer stops at the outer boundary of every person’s domain”. Spamhaus maintains that while Linhardt has a right under U.S. law to send as much unsolicited bulk email as he likes, he has no right under any law to force Spamhaus users to receive it.
Source: The Spamhaus Project.
The Register.
Spamhaus nemesis e360 Insight sued over junk mail
Published Friday 23rd March 2007
John Leyden at The Register.
David Linhardt, individually, and his firm e360 Insight are among the defendants in a lawsuit brought by William Silverstein, an aggrieved spam recipient. Bargaindepot.net, a firm which shares offices with e360 Insight, is also named in the suit.
