On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 09:47 am, Jack Rodgers wrote: > Another option is to contribute $10 to a fund to pay any hacker that > takes down a spammer. Sounds a great idea, but then I remembered that in Britain in the '50s there was a bounty of one shilling paid for killing a grey squirrel - the proof being production of its tail. The scheme was abandoned (it is said) when it was discovered that people were farming squirrels for their tails. Andrew