Microsoft, 3 other ISP giants sue spammers
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft and three other Internet giants opened a new front in the war against unwanted commercial e-mail yesterday, launching a coordinated legal assault under the provisions of a new federal law.
In an uncommon display of cooperation, competitors Microsoft, EarthLink, Yahoo! and America Online filed six lawsuits against hundreds of people and companies that they identified as notorious spammers responsible for sending hundreds of millions of messages.
"What we're trying to do is hit the biggest, the baddest, the most notorious," said Randall Boe, AOL's general counsel, at a Washington, D.C., news conference at which the companies announced the litigation.