[Spambayes] bounce?

[Tim Peters]

[Stuart Forsyth]
> Is there a feature to bounce spam in spambayes?

No, and there won't be.  The sender address in spam is almost always forged.
At best, the forged address doesn't exist, so your attempt to bounce it
bounces right back to you, and now the original piece of spam has clogged
the net with two additional useless pieces of email.  At worst, the forged
address is a real one, and your bounce ends up in the inbox of an innocent
third party.  You really can't appreciate the pain this can cause until some
spammer forges stuartf at the-i-junction.com as the sender address (want to
wake up to find 10,000 bounces in your inbox, every day?  along with
assorted random threats because outraged victims believe *you're* the one
sending farm porm spam to their kids?  etc).

BTW, some systems with this (mis)feature forge the sender address on the
bounces it generates, so that *you* don't see the consequences of bouncing
to a bogus or innocent address.  That's even worse -- then you can talk
yourself into thinking you're doing good, when at best you're increasing the
spam-related load on the net, and at worst are harrassing innocent victims.
The one thing a bounce-back gimmick can't do is bother the spammers.