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Holomaxx v. MSFT and Yahoo

I mentioned way back in January that Yahoo had filed a motion to dismiss the case against Holomaxx. Microsoft filed a motion to dismiss around that time, although I didn’t mention it here.
And, of course, Holomaxx filed a motion in opposition in both the Microsoft case and the Yahoo case. Nothing terribly interesting here, about what you’d expect to read.
On March 11 the judge ruled on both motions to dismiss and in both cases ruled that the case was dismissed.  He did, however, give leave for the complaints to be amended in the future.
As I expected the Judge agreed that MSFT and Yahoo have protection under the CDA. First, the court made it clear that providers are allowed wide leeway in determining what is objectionable to their customers.

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Phishing protection

Last week Return Path announced a new service: Domain Assurance. This service allows companies who send only authenticated email to protect their brand from phishing attacks. Participating ISPs will reject unauthenticated email from domains participating in this program.

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Office cat says

All work and no cat petting makes for a very cranky, and in the way, cat.

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