[Spambayes] Bouncing Spam

Matt Sergeant msergeant@startechgroup.co.uk
Wed Nov 27 18:17:05 2002


On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 18:18, Sam Robertson wrote:
> Hi, I'm Sam and have been lurking here for quite a while.  I wanted to 
> chime in on this topic.  Any effort expended on notifying the bulk 
> mailers as to the validity of an account at message accept isn't really 
> going to net any benefit.  Bulk mailers spend more time farming new 
> addresses than maintaining their list of old addresses.

The benefit of 5xx'ing the spam is that FP's get informed right away. I
can't think of any other reason to do it.

Matt.
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