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15 May 2010
Last year, Russ Smith of consumer.net filed a
most peculiar suit
against Comcast (his home ISP), Microsoft, Cisco, and TrustE,
pro se, claiming a long laundry list of malicious behavior
and privacy violations.
Last week the judge threw out the entire suit, but gave him one more
chance to refile and try to correct the flaws.
Among Smith's claims are that Comcast and Microsoft's Frontbridge subsidiary
have blacklisted him personally. To
the
surprise of many observers, the judge did not accept Comcast's defense that
47 USC 230 (the CDA) gives them blanket immunity for good faith spam
filtering.
Smith claimed that Comcast said they'd unblock his
mail if he paid them more money, which he interpreted as pay to spam,
which if true would mean the blocking was in bad faith.
While Comcast may well have said something like that, it didn't mean
what Smith claimed.
Having exchanged some mail about the suit with Smith last fall, I think
I understand what was going on, which was that despite having some
sort of certificate called a CISSP, Smith fails to understand
the way that e-mail works, and he has imagined a vast conspiracy
to explain what was really configuration errors, a poor choice
of server hosting, and perhaps malware infecting his mail server.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/consumer.html
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