Isn't that what class action lawsuits are for, i.e., combining a class of claimants into one law suit? Given, for example, the small-fry amounts in recent telecom leasing suits, one would think this would be fertile ground for lawyers. Claus Färber wrote: > Jan Meijer <Jan.Meijer@surfnet.nl> schrieb/wrote: > This is another problem with antispam legislation: It does not pay to > sue spammers. You can only sue them individually and the damages you can > get are very low (less than a cent per message). > > In Germany, you would have to pay several hundred EUR to bring forward > an action against a spammer (which you will get back if the spammer > loses the lawsuit and is not already bankrupt), which can only yield a > few cents damages and an injunction that this single spammer must not > send you any more spam (So you get one or two less pieces of spam per > year...) > > Claus