We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they still owe me $110. Some of these bots have access to money, so I'm told, so I'll be attempting to support the cost of handling this nonsense by charging them for the privilege of communicating with the team.

Here's my reply.

Two more signed up but haven't emailed yet, so I sent a formal notice.

Nico emailed me back. Silly Nico. /me adds $10 to processing fee.

Let's see what Nico has to say.

Oopsie. Welcome to the chat, kaelpaints.

Let's try a different tack. Special offer! Today only!

Just a note to all the admins seeing this thread, if you don't already know @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org we run an Advisory service you can monitor at https://about.iftas.org/sw-isac-alerts/ or do your #BotSpotting using #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY