I'm already doing that. I began with the very first one I received, and instructed him to block all mail to my two domains. After 3, I began invoicing Mr. Wallace $25 per message. His bill is up to $100 right now. I expect it will go higher (although the snail mail copy _might_ get more attention than the email).
Anyone on the list know of a good, heavy-handed collection agency that would like to take this when it tops, say, $500?
What contract do you have with savetrees.com that allows you to invoice them? Do you have a Purchase Order number? While I certainly am equally annoyed with their crap, I am also annoyed by all sorts of "unwanted mail" I receive. Including unwanted _physical_ mail. The "junk fax" law was carefully crafted to cover only continuing, persistent, and extensive abuse of fax machines....and I'm not even sure it would stand up in court (lawyers may have a clearer idea). Certainly it is essentially impossible for me to, upon receiving a fax I "did not ask for," to successfully collect on an invoice for, say, $100 (my "fee"). I would guess, from what I've read about the "junk fax" law, that it might be useful in a case of persistent, extensive "fax bombing." But probably useless for small, intermittent messages. And it is not written to cover e-mail, of course. Also, there's the risk of a _countersuit_ if an "official-looking" invoice is sent to a company. Why? Turns out that a scam that is spreading is the invoicing of companies for supplies and services never actually provided....many companies are so chaotic and disorganized that they'll pay invoices submitted to them. When they eventually determine they were paying for such invoices, they often take the matter to the local fraud folks. Until "junk e-mail" laws are passed (not that I support them, by the way), not much can be done. A precedent-setting case would of course cost a lot of money to follow through on. --Tim May "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."