Anti-spam group warning

Beware sinners, flood of spam is coming. Run to the hills.

Anti-spam group Spamhaus Project said more junk e-mail may end up in your e-mail program. The reason: The group expects to lose its domain name in a dispute with a company it has accused of sending spam.
Spamhaus officials said they expect a federal judge in Chicago will soon sign an order to suspend the spamhaus.org domain name.



e360 Insight sought the order after Spamhaus refused to comply with a September ruling that required it to pay $11.7 million and post a notice on its Web site stating that e360 Insight is not a spammer.

The United Kingdom-based group did not bother defending itself in the case, arguing that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction and that doing so would open the organization to a tidal wave of lawsuits by spammers that want to fight those who block their e-mails.



Company refused to recognize the U.S. court and comply with a nearly $12 million judgment.

Group warned that the court order could unleash up to 50 billion pieces of junk e-mails a day on computer users worldwide.

However, both legal and technology experts are skeptical about the claim of a nationwide flood of e-mail.