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You might have heard about Lawrence Lessig's (he of Creative Commons fame) suggestion that a bounty should be placed on spammers - hunt them down and you get a reward.

According to techdirt, the idea has been picked up by a Congresswoman, Zoe Lofgren who plans to introduce a bill into Congress. There's more about this from The Mercury News.

From a personal point of view, I'd be happy to support the idea of bounty hunters - preferably armed! The mailbox I have for my work in Sweden displayed its usual twenty-five messages this morning - twenty-three of them were spam.