eWeek’s Larry Seltzer is on the FCC proposal for spam bounties: “I can see a lot of angry ex-employees, ex-partners and ex-girlfriends and boyfriends calling up the government to get revenge, and spamming is as easy a claim as anything else. Look at the next spam that comes into your inbox and prove to me that you didn’t send it. At the very least someone will end up spending time looking into these claims.”
Hard to argue with that.

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November 1st, 2005 at 10:44 am
bigswifty
you fail to realize that bounties can not be placed against an act, only the person who is the mark or bounty head. IE: a spam bounty would be for the capture of a specific person that a bounty is placed on. so abuse is not an issue. there are currently 200 spam kings that not only should have bounties on them, but the bounties should be dead or alive bounties.