Comments on: Verizon Sued for Blocking Email from Around the World http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/verizon-sued-for-blocking-email-from-around-the-world Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: lee http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/verizon-sued-for-blocking-email-from-around-the-world#comment-416114 lee Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:19:08 +0000 /?p=342#comment-416114 there is no "guaranteed" email service on the internet. By its very nature this could not happen. "accounts were blocked and my contacts there were unable to correspond with me" HINT: try a telephone dude, if they have internet,then they have phone service. Can You Hear Me NOW??? (where do these people come from? I wish they would go back!) Talk about frivolous lawsuits! there is no “guaranteed” email service on the internet. By its very nature this could not happen.
“accounts were blocked and my contacts there were unable to correspond with me” HINT: try a telephone dude, if they have internet,then they have phone service. Can You Hear Me NOW???
(where do these people come from? I wish they would go back!) Talk about frivolous lawsuits!

]]> By: Timmer http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/verizon-sued-for-blocking-email-from-around-the-world#comment-967 Timmer Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:26:47 +0000 /?p=342#comment-967 The irony of Verizon (hosts of 65 Spamhaus listings, including Alan Ralsky, Brian Haberstroh/Atriks, Eric Reintersen, and Empire Towers) aside, it's "their servers, their rules". There is no law currently on the books *anywhere* requiring an ISP to accept traffic, and this is affirmed under the You-Can-Spam act, section 8c: "SEC. 8. EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS. (c) NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages." This *will* be interesting to watch, as it could open the doors for spammers to sue to force their traffic to be accepted. The irony of Verizon (hosts of 65 Spamhaus listings, including Alan Ralsky, Brian Haberstroh/Atriks, Eric Reintersen, and Empire Towers) aside, it’s “their servers, their rules”.

There is no law currently on the books *anywhere* requiring an ISP to accept traffic, and this is affirmed under the You-Can-Spam act, section 8c:

“SEC. 8. EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.
(c) NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages.”

This *will* be interesting to watch, as it could open the doors for spammers to sue to force their traffic to be accepted.

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