-> Only going by what I've already seen from mailcity.com.
Well, your info is flawed, and you should NOT pass such 'serious'
allegations on without attempting to verify them.
HERE is the info directly from the Juno website, as released to the
press (accents are mine) ...
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Juno Sues E-mail Forgers in Fight Against Spam
Free Internet E-mail Service Launches Federal Lawsuit Against Bulk
E-mailers
NEW YORK, NY (November 25, 1997)--Juno Online Services, L.P., provider
of the nation's only completely free Internet e-mail service, announced
it has filed suit in federal court against five organizations believed
to have forged Juno e-mail addresses onto unsolicited commercial e-mail
actually sent through a different e-mail provider. The lawsuit charges
five defendants with sending tens of thousands of pieces of unsolicited
commercial e-mail (commonly known on the Internet as "spam") bearing
forged return addresses that falsely identified Juno e-mail accounts as
the source of the spam.
Juno is the second-largest online service in the United States (after
America Online), with more than 3.5 million subscribers. Like other
major online services, Juno prohibits its subscribers from using its
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service for the transmission of spam. Juno maintains a staff to
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investigate spam-related complaints and terminates the account of any
subscriber found to be in violation of this prohibition. Juno has also
implemented a number of proprietary technical measures designed to make
it extremely difficult to send spam from a Juno account or to "relay"
spam through Juno's computers.
In recent months, however, Juno has found itself the victim of a
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practice its technical solutions cannot address: the forging of Juno
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e-mail addresses, both real and fictitious, into the "headers" of spam
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sent through services other than Juno. "The practice of spamming is
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universally reviled," said Charles Ardai, Juno's president. "Spammers
insert fake return addresses in their bulk e-mail solicitations in
order to disguise their identity and to deflect the thousands of angry
complaints a single piece of spam can provoke onto an innocent third
party."
In its complaint, Juno notes that the deceptive practices of "spammers"
have interfered with its business. Juno is seeking financial
compensation from the defendants for damage to Juno's reputation,
fraud, and trademark infringement. The suit seeks $1,000,000 in
punitive damages against each of the five defendants: Strippers, Inc.
of Beverly Hills, CA; IMS of Knoxville, TN; Phoenix Interactive of
Hermosa Beach, CA; Global Information Services of Clearwater, FL; and
Scott Allen Export Sales of Somerset, NJ. The action, filed in United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York, also asks
the court for a preliminary and permanent injunction against the
spammers.
The specific counts against each of the named companies include:
False designation of origin
Fraud
Unjust enrichment
According to the suit, the spammers have camouflaged their respective
businesses behind Juno's reputable name by forging Juno return e-mail
addresses in their solicitations. By disguising the point of origin of
their messages, spammers are able to avoid the automatic filters used
by many individuals and companies to reject all incoming messages from
known spam sources. Because the vast majority of the e-mail that bears
a Juno return address is from one of Juno's millions of legitimate
e-mail users, it would be impossible for an e-mail recipient to reject
all incoming Juno e-mail without rejecting messages that he or she did
want to receive.
"This is a misappropriation of Juno's legitimate identity. The spammers
hide behind our name in order to deceive the people they write to and
avoid the consequences of their actions," said Mr. Ardai. "We believe
these companies have violated federal law, and we intend to hold them
responsible for their actions. With this suit we hope to turn a
spotlight on one of the most objectionable practices in cyberspace and
put an end to it."
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I HOPE that clears things up. And now YOU can pass this on to anyone
that claims Juno is responsible for spamming.
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