[anti-abuse-wg] Manual vs automated reports

On 26/07/2012 2:01 AM, Denis Walker wrote:
> Dear Arnold
>
> From the RIPE NCC website you can find an Abuse Finder tool
> http://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html
Thank you, Denis

I believe someone had pointed me to this URL before, but
because I never used it, I had forgotten about it.

As you have had other comments in the mean time regarding this
URL, I won't belabor the point too much,

When I, or anyone else, gets SPAM, all we have to go on is 
the IP
address and the lookup URL does not even accept IP addresses,
so it is not very useful for this purpose.

It may be useful for whatever the facility was built for, 
but it is not
for my purposes :-(

I have used the RIPE DB look-up URL with some success, but 
it is
tedious and requires a lot of manual intervention and searching
and following trails.

 From my perspective, the simplest way would be to simply 
put the
abuse address in the place the Whois record provides, or 
possibly
(and preferably for me) in the IANA database or else provide a
service similar to Whois, for abuse only, with registration if
absolutely necessary.

> This is a first iteration of a user tool to help with 
> finding abuse contact information in the RIPE Database. It 
> tries to find the abuse contact(s) for an Internet 
> resource on a 'best effort' basis.
If it is a tool under development, I would not mind giving 
some feedback to the developers.
 From waht I see and what others have also commented on, it 
does not look like
it was developed with this purpose in mind.

Arnold

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