eMail BOUNCE BUTTON-bounces spam back with undeliverable message

[Dr. Bill]

On the taskbar and also in the drop down menus I would greatly appreciate a
BOUNCE button. This button will automatically reply to a spam's email server
that my email address is undeliverable as stated.
Spammer's rely on testing that email addresses that are correct. If they got
a return message that this email address does not exist, they would remove
the person from the spam list when testing the authenticity of the email
addresses.
Believe it or not, they will routinely check their spam list.
Otherwise they would get enough bounced email to shut down the viral
controlled sender. The viral sender will be overloaded with responses
alerting the access provider to a virus.
A bounce button should be a win-win situation for the user, the virus bound
victim and the access provider. The only one it should hurt is the spammer.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Bad idea. Spammers don't necessiarly use their own addresses to send mail. The address that you'd be bouncing back to is probably that of an innocent bystander whose address was harvested by the spammer. You'd just be hurting that person by sending them more spam.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

On the taskbar and also in the drop down menus I would greatly
appreciate a BOUNCE button.

In addition to what Sue sais, mail clients can't generate real bounces
anyway.