[Ferre]

Originally Posted by iWonder

1. What if the country you send the bill don't have any laws against SPAM ? It would be like sending a bill to a women in US for not wearing a burqa .

It's not about the laws in those countries, those have nothing to do wth it.

I think, when as site states that certain services costs money, it's a normal business deal, and business deals are valid in about every country on earth.

When a website states that cleaning up spam costs a certain amount of money, when added to the site, it's actually not much different from other sites that offer a digitally service which costs money. Think about the many sites that ask for payment just to be able to view certain sections. Ther are also sites that ask for payment to place articles, there are numerous news sites that do that.

In principle, with the correct disclaimer/terms of use, a spammer actually agrees as soon as he/she/(the bot) adds the spam URL to this site.

Originally Posted by iWonder

2. On what basis can one send it ? If I spam my competitors website on a forum, this would certainly do me good .

When someone else gets photographed for speeding with my car, I am the one who gets the ticket. But you do make a point, and as I said, it's just an idea that sprouted up in my mind, I did not concider every aspect, reason why we are talking about it is to see if it is actually an idea that could be worked out.

Originally Posted by iWonder

Its not practical if you are actually going to send bills to everyone who spams. Its better to just moderate the spam.

Dunno about that, When a Russian debt collector is doing the actual work of getting your money and they of course add their provision to it, you don't have much work either than sending bills, which pays for the moderating.

Originally Posted by iWonder

Besides, even if the owner of forum/blog just wants to scare of spammers by putting this message, indirectly he would be inviting a lot more attention hence, more ...

I don't think so, if website owners would unite and massively add those terms of use to their sites and start sending tons of bills to every spam site they can find the owners from, I guess it would top off a lot of those spammers earnings and it might even make it too expensive for them to keep doing it on the scale it happens now.

fterall, we are talking about a normal business deal here, terms of service for the use of websites which are allready common in some niches.