Spamhaus appeals against shutdown
The Spamhaus Project has told a U.S. court that it plans to appeal against a recent ruling that threatened it with millions of dollars in legal fines and a possible shutdown of its database of known spammers. The notice was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by lawyers with Jenner & Block LLP, a Chicago law firm that is now representing the volunteer organisation.
Spamhaus, based in the U.K., has a team of 25 investigators and claims to block between eight billion and ten billion email messages per day. Its database is used by several major security vendors, including Microsoft.
The filing marks the group's return to a legal fight against an e-mail marketing company called e360 Insight LLC that Spamhaus had tried its best to ignore.
