Is prelink really randomizing every two weeks?

[Les Mikesell]

Cameron Simpson wrote:

> 
> | > | The best one I've seen previously was setting your email address in newsgroups
> | > | to abuse at whoever.com, so the spammers would file their own complaints.  Your
> | > | idea is just as cute as that.
> | > 
> | > Hmm, no, it's not as awful as that. That swamps the abuse@ addresses
> | > with crap, preventing them being used for genuine reports of trouble.
> | > Really clever - actively working to break a trouble reporting system.
> | 
> | Not really.  The abuse system gets emails from the spammer, blocks same.
> 
> Hmm. Given the amazingly high forgery rate of spam headers, does this
> really achieve anything? I still maintain it breaks the abuse channel
> for the sending of genuine complaints.

I don't get it.  Why would anyone want replies to their newsgroup 
questions sent to an abuse address or interpreted as spam?

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   Les Mikesell
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