SpamCop and Spammers fight in court

TechRepublic.com reports on a judicial block of a SpamCop blacklisting:

A Northern California District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an antispam operation, from interfering with messages sent by alleged junk e-mailer OptInRealBig.com.

Now, spam irritates me - a lot. On the other hand, I despise blacklists. The way SpamCop runs them, it's virtually impossible to get removed from such a list, and they occasionally block mail from large ISP's - I've had them block outgoing mail from my ISP's email server. A pox on both their houses....