Judges protect right to boot suspected spammer, Cnet News.com, 27 Jan 2005

“A federal appeals court has ruled that EarthLink was within its rights to disconnect a customer who it incorrectly believed to be spamming. EarthLink pulled the plug on independent film producer Peter Hall's account in August 1997 after receiving a report from UUNet, its network provider, that Hall was sending out bulk junk e-mail. Realizing its mistake about a week later, EarthLink offered a public retraction and forwarded Hall about 16 e-mail messages that had accumulated in his account during that time.�

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