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Originally Posted by admin  I do like this idea, but the problem is that they often want you to reply to the mail, just so they know your e-mail address is "live". You can't send out invoices to people for posting things you don't like, it just doesn't work. In law its seen as an attempt to fine a person, and not a real compensation for the time it takes you to remove it. In theory, you could warn people that you will charge say £20 for each word of the offending e-mail, and send them a bill for £500, but actually collecting that cash is virtually impossible, even if they are found to be in this country. You would even have to prove which person actually sent the e-mail, and if there is more then one person that has access to the computer thats impossible. All you have in fact is an e-mail and an IP address, and if you trace it (say with Neotrace) you often find it bounces all over the world and back to Amsterdam or Africa!
Also lots of the servers that send out this sort of stuff are in places like Russia, Poland etc. There is really no way it would scare offf anyone in real terms I'm afraid to say - in my (and a solicitor I know) opinion.
I think for now I'll try option 2 and turn on the squiggly letters!
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...well you just keep spamming the spammers with a bill.
Watching the baliff programs on TV they charge after each visit, so just keep increasing the amount on the bill as service charges.
They may never pay you.
Another option is to post their addresses on newsgroups so the spam bots pick them up and they get spammed from other spammers.
They can then pick up their addresses and spam each other until the end of time.