[Spambayes] RE: trying to send in a suggestion for your software..

[Coe, Bob]

> From: Jason Wolfe [mailto:jason at directresponse.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 2:07 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Cc: Greg Stoltz
> Subject: [Spambayes] trying to send in a suggestion for your 
> software..
> 
> 
> However, one of the good items [a competing spam catcher] had was
> to 'bounce' my spam back to the spammer.  Then the spammer thinks
> the email address is not active.
> 
> Do you have plans to add this functionality?

Not a good idea. Such a misfeature is worse than a waste of effort. These days almost no spammers use a legitimate reply address. At best the bounce attempt contributes an additional undeliverable message to the clutter. Often it goes instead to some poor wretch whose reply address was used by the spammer without the wretch's knowledge or permission. At worst, the reply address is the original list itself, and the bounce message goes to EVERYBODY.

Bob

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