Hartley thrown out: Good news for permission, bad news for spammers

Anti-spam and legal compliance expert Mickey Chandler recently wrote about a recent decision of potential interest to those in email marketing land. This case is one of a number of recent cases alleging that open tracking is bad and evil and ultimately the allegations here don't really strike me much to write home about (as I don't think open tracking is evil), but what do I know, as I am not a lawyer. 

Mickey, however, is a lawyer and found something very interesting in the court's opinion regarding Hartley -- ultimately reinforcing why permission rules. 

Click on through to Mickey's blog to read more about it there.