I described a few months back Larry Lessig's notion about a bounty on spammers to some friends who misunderstood, and thought it was my idea. They believed I was getting militant on the subject.

I wasn't, but spam is such a pathetic business model, that you would wish all of these spammers would just find something else to do. They also need to know that people will get militant if they continue to do things like described in Wired News: Spam: This Time It's Personal