Yesmail.com versus MAPS: Lawsuit on hold Spam & E-Mail7/27/2000; 1:56:28 PM 'REDWOOD CITY, CA and CHICAGO, IL – July 25, 2000 -- yesmail.com, a leading outsourcer of permission email marketing services and technologies and a majority-owned company of CMGI, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI), and Mail Abuse Prevention Systems, LLC (“MAPS”) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which puts the previously reported litigation on hold, lifts the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), and does not list yesmail.com on MAPS’ Realtime Blackhole List, pending further talks between companies. Executives from MAPS and yesmail.com are working jointly to clarify optimal practices for the email marketing industry for obtaining consumer permission and protecting against fraudulent registrations. The companies expect a formal announcement in the near future.'David Tolmie, CEO of yesmail.com, stated, “As discussions with MAPS have proceeded, we are both finding that the goals for yesmail.com and MAPS are very much in alignment. We are looking forward to being able to announce an agreement which will represent a very strong statement from both of us regarding policies and practices for consumer permission and protection in the email marketing industry.” 'Paul Vixie, Managing Member of MAPS LLC, stated, “Once we started peeling back the covers on this, it turned out that yesmail.com’s stated business interests and the policies they were willing to put in place made them ineligible for listing on the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). We think that the details we’ll set forth in the final agreement in this case will outline a model for all companies in the electronic marketing field.”'Two days old; several people covered the suit, nobody covered this agreement; this is from the press-release archive at MAPS. I guess this means the issues at stake have essentially been pushed back into the corner.