[Spambayes] spambayes...

[Ball, Dan]

Ya, I thought of that possible outcome, fortunately, I don't know anyone that was ever one the recieving end of that situation, if I did, I may be much more sensitive to it as well.

Good points, thanks for the response.

Dan Ball - Retek Application Support
Web Developer/NT System Administrator
Phone - 612 587-2143
Cell - 612 720-3409
dan.ball at retek.com


-----Original Message-----
From: T. Alexander Popiel [mailto:popiel at wolfskeep.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:40 AM
To: Ball, Dan
Cc: spambayes at python.org; popiel at wolfskeep.com
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] spambayes... 


In message:  <C736868EB761C04A8909BB038DEABD640352BFCC at MSPMAILV1.retek.int>
             "Ball, Dan" <dan.ball at retek.com> writes:

>Ya know one feature that I think might be cool for your project...adding =
>the ability to bounce spam emails as undeliverable back to the sender.
>
>Just a thought.

We've thought it a couple times, too... but given that most
spammers these days don't accept incoming email, or (worse)
forge the from and sender addresses, it's unlikely that it
would do any good, and may well do some innocent much harm.
One of my friends in college ended up on the receiving end
of a huge amount of hate mail (the sheer volume of which
incapacitated his system) because of spammer forgeries.

- Alex