Salut,
In case Az. 7 O 80/07, the District Court of Lüneburg has ruled
that the use of blacklists for mail filtering is an illegal process.
The court thereby confirmed the view of a known spammer that the fact
that mails from his servers were deleted by the SPAM filter was an
act of censorship.
According to the ruling, the fact that a mail server is used to
transmit soleily SPAM is not sufficient to block mails from it
entirely. Blocking a single mail address would have been sufficient,
according to the court. However, even this step would only have been
acceptable in order to prevent an immanent danger of a virus attack.
Well, pretty bad...
Tonnerre