Court challenge to AOL junk-mail blocks

Jim McCoy mccoy at communities.com
Sat Sep 7 01:42:18 PDT 1996


frogfarm at yakko.cs.wmich.edu writes:
> This is utter horseshit. AOL, like any private individual or organization,
> has the right to refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason, or
> even for no reason at all. The gubmint isn't doing SQUAT, except forcing
> AOL to allow the spammers access.

AOL has a service agreement with their customers, and they are not allowed
to change the rules just because they feel like it (I believe that this
is called a contract :)  This is the jist of the injunction.

jim








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