On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:10:59 +0100 'Sebastian G.'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

>hummingbird wrote:
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>> There are reasons to fake headers to hide from public view what
>> posting s/w he uses to deter stalkers,
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>Nonsense.

That response from you sure is.
I refer you to my previous comments.

> > and the poster may have
>> chosen OE for no particular reason (ie a random choice).
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>A static header means that the posting still has always the same
>characteristic. The only sane choice would be to randomize it for each posting.

Maybe the other poster does that. Do you know otherwise?

>Then again, one can simply omit all irrelevant headers.

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> > I'm not aware of the compatibility problems you refer to.
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>I am. Various servers detect OE by the header and then apply protocol
>changes to make it work, which in turn break the real clients.

Sorry, I know nothing about this.