In a stunning victory (please note irony in use of the word “stunning”), a Federal court has slapped down the appeal of high volume e-mail deployer White Buffalo Ventures, an online dating service also doing business as LongHornSingles.com.

the reason for the dripping irony is because, in fact, the lawsuit said that the law was one way, when the law was actually already very clear that it was another. So this decision was actually a no-brainer, and the only thing stunning about it was the stupidity with which the plaintiff brought the lawsuit in the first place (and maybe the alacrity with which its attorneys presumably accepted the money to bring such a no-brainer case).

White Buffalo brought the initial lawsuit against the University of Texas when UT started rejecting White Buffalo’s e-mail under the university’s anti-spam policies and practices.

A primary thrust of White Buffalo’s argument was that because its e-mail complied with CAN-SPAM, UT was obligated to accept and deliver it…

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