E-MAIL BLOCKADE TO LIFT : AOL ORDERED TO FREE MARKETING MAILINGS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A federal judge has ordered America Online See AOL. to stop blocking up to 1.8 million ``junk'' e-mail files flooding subscribers' electronic mailboxes daily from a Philadelphia marketing firm. AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , the nation's largest provider of on-line services, announced Wednesday that it had blocked five sites that serve as clearinghouses for unsolicited, commercial mailings. Pending a trial tentatively scheduled for Nov. 12, U.S. District Judge Charles Weiner ordered AOL on Thursday to lift the block on Cyber Promotions' mailings. Weiner is presiding over a suit Cyber Promotions A Philadelphia-based company that specialized in mass mailings of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). Founder Sanford Wallace proudly called himself the "King of Spam." The company sent out millions of e-mail advertisements daily and seemed to be enjoying a thriving business until Inc. filed in March accusing AOL of trying to drive it out of business. Cyber Promotions controls three of the five sites blocked by AOL. The others - one which distributes software to create bulk e-mail lists and one which had sent out ads for Internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. porn - were not affected by Weiner's order. AOL attorney David Phillips said the company was considering an appeal. He said AOL customers had been ``complaining vociferously about Cyber Promotions' junk mail.'' Sanford A. Wallace, the president of Cyber Promotions, was pleased about the decision. ``We feel that America Online has violated the civil rights of their members and has violated our rights to send e-mail through the Internet, which AOL does not own,'' he said. |
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