Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > | The best one I've seen previously was setting your email address in newsgroups
| > | to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx, 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
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
