[anti-abuse-wg] Manual vs automated reports

Arnold
Do a Whois lookup on any IP in As39122
You should see an abuse contact....

Yet we still get reports sent to accounts@ sales@ etc.,

Regards

Michele

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight
http://Blacknight.tel

Via iPhone so excuse typos and brevity

On 25 Jul 2012, at 16:25, "Arnold" <wiegert at telus.net> wrote:

> On 25/07/2012 6:52 AM, Frank Gadegast wrote:
>> "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>>> If they send reports to $random addresses they don't really deserve a response
>> 
>> Thats a true word for prefessionals, but not for not-so-skilled
>> reporter, that are happy to find out, that there is something like RIPE
>> and a whois showing them who is responsible for a resource, if they
>> get abused.
> I have to agree with this.
> As a purely 'amateur' reporter, The WhoIs record is all I can rely on
> as an _officially_ published record to report my complaint.
> There are other ways, but none are as easy to use and as official.
> 
> If the people responsible for reducing SPAM won't do anything to make
> it easier by at least enforcing a proper abuse address in the expected
> and designated place, then it makes the job of reporting and reducing
> SPAM that  much harder.
> 
> No matter what you will do, publishing  any address opens the door to
> receiving SPAM, but ... why complain about it; use the information
> provided by this SPAM in the same way you expect any other user
> to use it - except you won't need me to report it to you :-)
> 
> Arnold
> 
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