
| Law makers have struggled for years to frame a spam law without cutting off the campaign contributions of direct marketers. In Europe, the clear and decisive directive that covers unsolicited commercial email has been diluted by national governments, and in the US, a law has been passed that outlines the way that you “CAN SPAM”, legally. | |
| A whole host of legal actions have been made against spammers, by Governments, companies and individuals, and a handful have been made back the other way. | |
| Particularly with the rise of challenge/response as a spam filtering technology, more is being made of the intellectual property of spam filtering technologies. |