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Yesmail Gets Restraining Order Against MAPS Blacklist

By Patricia Odell, Richard H. Levey

Yesmail.com, a Chicago-based permission marketer, won a temporary restraining order Thursday against Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC (MAPS) in the first legal challenge to the Redwood, CA-based group.

Issued by the Northern District Court of Illinois (Eastern Division), the order blocks MAPS from adding yesmail to its list of alleged spammers. It is good through Aug. 2. A hearing has been scheduled for July 18.

Several firms have found their Web sites shut down and their e-mails blocked after being listed on MAPS? Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The RBL, which lists more than 3,000 alleged spammers, is subscribed to by 20,000 Internet service providers, corporations, government agencies and individuals.

In a complaint filed on Thursday, yesmail alleged that MAPS had announced its intent to include yesmail on the RBL.

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