A new button on email acounts

thamespirate

What i would love is if some bright spark could invent a button on the email next to the delete button especially on spam which when you click on it it returns the email back to the sender unopened . this would really be good can you imagine a spammer sending out a hundred random emails and most of us just clicking returning them , when they go back it should be like if email sent to a non account and is bounced back. :j

System

All that would achieve is to clog up the email systems and probably dump a load of mails into some poor sod who has had his machine hijacked. When he gets them he clicks that button as well and round and round we go until email grinds to a halt.

Another scenario. 2000 people click the button to send them back to the originator. Originators mailbox is already full so the mail is rejected and you get a rejection email back. That now means 6000 mails will fly around the system

Dave_C_2

Nope, won't work for several reasons as above. and the sender will use a separate email address for reply-to which can easily be ignored and bulk deleted

Even more importantly this immediately lets the sender know that the email from his automatically generated list is valid and can be added to his "Mug that replied " list that he can then sell on.
Never ever reply to a spam email.

Bright sparks have already come up with spam solutions, such as spam filters from your ISP (the BT one is brilliant) and filtering on good email clients like Thunderbird. As a result I get one or two spams per month.

Whatever happened to the idea of ISPs charging for sending email at the rate of 0.001p each? Us normal users wouldn't notice but it would price the spammers out of business as they rely on sending millions.

Dave

System

Dave_C wrote: »

Whatever happened to the idea of ISPs charging for sending email at the rate of 0.001p each? Us normal users wouldn't notice but it would price the spammers out of business as they rely on sending millions.

Dave

Unworkable due to people having their own mail servers.

thamespirate

thanks it was only an idea , just thought i would float it , and see if it was possible , but no i see not , what about ppi company's that keep phoning me with an important message , now thats really !!!!ing me off. I have signed up to stop these kind of calls but it takes weeks , maybe thats why i have had 4 of these today . i was with vonage for years never got one signed up a month ago with virgin media , as i have broadband, tv ect straight away ppi calls . i think after my 18 months i ll go back to vonage .