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AOL spam showdown brewing... [CNN]
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> AOL SPAM DISPUTE ESCALATES
>
> Business group threatens to release millions of e-mail addresses
>
> * Group says AOL is anti-small business
> * AOL calls plan 'cyber-terrorism'
> * Spam spat
> * Related stories and sites
>
> December 31, 1997
> Web posted at: 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 GMT)
>
> CHINO, California (CNN) -- An Internet business group and the
> world's biggest Internet service provider, America Online, were
> poised Wednesday for a legal showdown in a dispute over pitching
> products and services to AOL users via e-mail.
>
> If AOL doesn't back down from its opposition to the National
> Organization of Internet Commerce (NOIC), the California-based group
> threatens to put the e-mail addresses of millions of AOL users on
> its Web site, making them available for downloading by any business,
> group or individual seeking to make mass electronic mailing
>
> NOIC, a non-profit trade organization representing small businesses
> and bulk-mailers, originally set Thursday as the day it would reveal
> the e-mail addresses of 1 million of AOL's 10 million customers.
>
> On Wednesday, however, NOIC escalated the threat, announcing it
> would release 5 million AOL e-mail addresses on January 8.
>
> AOL vowed to fight NOIC in court, if necessary, and said it hoped
> the group would reconsider.
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