Companies that Filed Lawsuits against the MAPS Project
(whose IPs one might want to null-route permanently)


I once attended a lecture by Paul Vixie, during the period when several
companies with... questionable e-mail practices were filing what seemed to
be nuisance lawsuits against the MAPS Project, trying to enjoin MAPS
from including their IPs in their anti-spam DNS blocklists.  I told him 
an anecdote afterwards, that cheered him immensely:

"Mr. Vixie, immediately after Yesmail filed its lawsuit against MAPS, 
I send e-mail to Yesmail's sales e-mail alias plus as many of the 
executive staff as I could track down.  I told them something a lot 
like this:  'Gentlemen:  I note your firm's current lawsuit against the
MAPS Project over inclusion of your IP addresses in its blocklist.  
The interesting thing about MAPS is that they may eventually forgive
you for doing this.  Unfortunately, by contrast, system administrators
(such as myself) all over the world will never forgive you, and you
are going to be null-routed from now to eternity, everywhere they 
have access to routing tables.  Personally, I think you made a strategic 
mistake, but you be the judge.  Have a nice lifetime.'"



http://www.dotcomeon.com/ lists lawsuits against MAPS LLC by these firms:
 
o  Yesmail, Inc., 959 Skyway Rd., Ste. 150, San Carlos, CA.  Was at the time 
   a branch of CMGI of MA, http://www.cmgi.com/.  infoUSA, Inc. of NE
   acquired the firm in 2003, and made it a branch of infoUSA's 
   Donnelley Group division.
   http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/07/18/000718hnyesmail.html

o  Harris Interactive, Inc., 135 Corporate Woods, Rochester, NY.  Part of 
   the corporate group that includes the Harris public-opinion poll.
   http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/429731

o  Black Ice Software, Inc., 292 Route 101, Amherst, NH
   http://www.ifn.net/classic/blckice2.htm

o  Experian eMarketing, Inc. (was Exactis.com).
   Exactis.com at the time of the lawsuit filing a division of "24/7 Media".  
   Experian bought the division from 24/7 Media and renamed it 
   "Experian eMarketing, Inc." while the lawsuit was still pending, 
   and then extracted out of MAPS a settlement imposing on MAP a 
   permenent restraining order prohibiting inclusion of Experian
   eMarketing's IPs again without first obtaining a court order.
   In addition, MAPS is prohibited from acting on Experian eMarketing's
   failure to use (standard) three-way handshake for additions to
   marketing mailing lists.
   http://www.dotcomeon.com/exactis.html

o  Media3 Technologies LLC, 33 Riverside Drive, North River Commerce Park, 
   Pembroke, MA.  Listed in MAPS's DNS blocklist because MAPS considered 
   Media3 to host a number of companies on its IPs that sell software
   for sending junk e-mail.  



MAPS LLC became Kelkea, Inc., which was then bought by Trend Micro 
and merged into the Trend Micro RBL service.  However, eternity hasn't
expired, yet.
