Cyber Promotions sued again
Three weeks after its backbone provider and then a mishap took it offline, junk emailer Cyber Promotions is back on the Net--for now.
Internet service for the bulk emailer was restored Saturday, and most of the company's 11,000 customers were brought back online today, according to the company's president, Sanford Wallace.
Yet the lawsuit filed in a New York City federal court is another headache for the company in an ongoing war over the sending of unsolicited commercial email, or spam. Filed by email service Bigfoot Partners, the suit seeks $1 million in damages and a court order prohibiting Cyber Promotions from using Bigfoot resources in sending junk email.
On Friday, Cyber Promotions was reconnected by AGIS, the Net backbone provider that booted the emailer in mid-September. About two hours later, though, a construction crew in Michigan accidentally severed a fiber-optic cable, interrupting service to a number of AGIS customers, including the unpopular spammer.
AGIS said it disconnected Cyber Promotions and two other clients that send unsolicited commercial email after antispammers repeatedly attacked the backbone provider's system. Last week, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled that AGIS's action constituted an unlawful breach of contract and ordered Cyber Promotions reconnected. (See related story)
Representatives from AGIS were not immediately available for comment.