Just works.
> Denial of service attacks (flooding a mailbox with junk) will be easier after this document becomes a standard, since more systems will support the same set of mailbox names.
The spam we got was often useful for abuse handling and spam filtering too. It was a good thing!
Every network should have an abuse@ address. Web forms are pretty popular these days too, but every extra hoop you force reporters to jump through can cut down on the reports you get of problems on your network. It's worth dealing with the spam to make sure you're getting notified as quickly as possible.
A honeypot is an email address that should never get email, typically because the only way a spammer can capture the address is by scraping a web-page. Role addresses don't need to be scraped; they're well-known.