When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. “[email protected].” The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread. But when those messages are sent to an inactive e-mail address or the recipient ignores the instruction and replies anyway, the missives don’t just disappear into the digital ether. Instead, they land in Chet Faliszek’s e-mail box. As owner of www.donotreply.com, the Seattle-based programmer receives millions of wayward e-mails each week, including a great many missives destined for executives at Fortune 500 companies or bank customers, even sensitive messages sent by government personnel and contractors. The majority of the e-mails naturally are from spammers, who also are quite fond of using Faliszek’s domain name in the “From” field of their junk e-mails. Some of the non-spam bounce-backs are fairly harmless, like the ones he gets every