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    When Sprint cut off Cyber Promo's access without any notice, Cyber
sued them. Yesterday they agreed to a settlement whereby Cyber gets
their access back, but only until Nov 15. Then they'll have to find
another distribution source.

    And according to Sprint,  Cyber Promotions has also agreed to use
only the domain names registered to it "and to promptly remove from its
mailing lists any  addressee who so requests [it]."

    Cyber Promo has alread gone through 20 ISPs, so even though they
have "applications" filed with several at the moment it may not be easy
getting back.

    Interstingly, Wallace said that AOL users are his bread and butter,
comprising 1 million of the 1.3 million addresses on his mailing list.
Halting email to AOL members, he declared, "would be the equivalent of
going out of business." That almost sounds like a challenge to AOL.

    http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,4940,00.html

Doc



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