Article: Harris Interactive and Microsoft Reach Settlement of Lawsuit.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000

Harris Interactive (Nasdaq: HPOL), the global leader in Internet-based market research, today announced it has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), to settle the lawsuit brought because e-mail from Harris Interactive was prevented from reaching users of the MSN(R) Hotmail(TM) Web-based e-mail service due to the MAPS service.

Microsoft is committed to preventing unsolicited e-mail, or "spam," from reaching customers of Hotmail, and part of that effort included using filtering programs from MAPS that blocked e-mail ...

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