[anti-abuse-wg] 2010-08 New Policy Proposal (Abuse contact information)

Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:08, Frank Gadegast
> <ripe-anti-spam-wg at powerweb.de>  wrote:
>
>> There is no risk to produce such a list, because the abuse
>> email addresses will be mandatory and published without limits anyway.
>
> It would make harvesting addresses easier.

How ?
It should only be available for members.

And harvesting is done anyway via whois ...
And there are lots of unlimited webservices that
mirror personal whois data, there are also used
by harvesters easily.

So: these addresses are known to the spammers anyway.
A list will not make it worth, even if a member
publishes it.

BTW: just did run a quick check how much spam we
received on our email addresses published via whois
compared to others on the same domain.
Seems like spammers fear a official abuse contact
and do not spam them a lot.


Kind regards, Frank

> Still, this might be
> something worth considering.
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>


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