I was glad to see this article on www.news.com today. I don't know if it'll help slow down the flood of cybersex invitations that I get *from* AOL addresses to my lists, but I can always hope: ***************************** AOL files suit against spammer ***************************** By Erich Luening October 2, 1997, 6:50 a.m. PT America Online (AOL) is fighting against spam in federal court with a suit against a Las Vegas-based company which the online service provider claims has repeatedly sent unsolicited junk e-mail to AOL members despite repeated requests to stop. According to the suit filed this week, the spam company Over the Air Equipment used deceptive practices, including falsifying e-mail transmission data, to avoid AOL's mail controls and to repeatedly transmit vast amounts of unsolicited e-mail to AOL members. The uninvited e-mail included a link to adult entertainment sites that feature "cyber stripper" offerings on the Web. To further confuse the AOL subscribers, Over the Air Equipment copied an America Online trademark fraudulently suggesting that their site had AOL approval, the suit alleges. In a statement, AOL senior vice president and general counsel George Vradenburg said the company is telling junk e-mailers, "You will finally have to take responsibility for your deceptions, your trickery, and your counterfeiting." The AOL suit claims that despite repeated demands to Over the Air Equipment to cease and desist, the company continued to use a variety of deceptive practices including forging e-mail headers and counterfeiting routing information to escape detection. In addition, Over the Air Equipment blatantly ignored AOL members requests to be removed from the company's spamming lists and continued to transmit unwanted junk e-mail to frustrated subscribers. A representative of Over the Air Equipment said the company had no knowledge of the suit. He offered no further comment. ========================================================================== This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." FLW ==========================================================================