[address-policy-wg] Re: please remove invalid abuse contacts

 > Abuse has nothing to do with Address Policy.

If the abuse contact provided by the whois database is wrong then it is 
an address policy issue since the contact information was wrong when 
assigning an IP range.


 > If you don't get a response
 > from the ISP in question,
 > then I suggest you contact the upstream.

Who is upstream ?


 > In most of these kind of cases
 > though you won't be able to resolve those
 > questions and you are just wasting a lot of your time,
 > as such choose the easy way: just block them.


I don't agree. If the admin cut the network access of the spammer he/she 
won't continue to send Spam.



Regards.


Jeroen Massar a écrit :
> Jérôme Bouat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm reporting many invalid contact to RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, ARIN, LACNIC.
>>
>> I made an error, the invalid contact which is related to you is:
>> "abuse at ono.com" for IP 84.127.214.4.
>>
>> The issue is that the contact admin doesn't solve the abuse I encounter.
>>
>> Who should I contact if the RIPE database manager tell me he/she can't
>> do anything and if you tell me you're not the right working group ?
> 
> (I am not the "Working Group", just one of the voices in it)
> 
> Abuse has nothing to do with Address Policy. If you don't get a response
> from the ISP in question, then I suggest you contact the upstream.
> 
> In most of these kind of cases though you won't be able to resolve those
> questions and you are just wasting a lot of your time, as such choose
> the easy way: just block them.
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>