Judge bars sending of unwanted e-mail
A state judge Wednesday barred a Niagra Falls company from sending commercial e-mails to Internet subscribers without their permission. State Supreme Court Justice Lottie E. Wilkins permanently enjoined MonsterHut Inc., which state officials accused of sending some 500 million unsolicited commercial e-mails and then telling complaining recipients that they had requested it. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued MonsterHut after some 750,000 computer users complained that since March 2001 they had received the unwanted messages also known as computer spam and tried to have them stopped but were told they had “opted in” to receive them. Full Story