[anti-abuse-wg] the mandatory abuse field

Hi all,

I really have the feeling, that some in the community fear
a mandatory abuse field, and try find any strange argument
against it, but I really cannot see why.

If somebody does not want to receive abuse reports or
does not want to do something against abuse originating
from his own resources or likes to receive them not via
email or has whatever else reason, well, name it
this-email-address-is-not-being-read at yourdomain.com
or
no-reply at example.com
or send it to devnull ...

Lots of resource holders are already doing the same,
we keep a list of there email addresses, so
we do not have to send them reports that
will only fill our mail queue to bounce back.
I can understand them and respect that others
like to work things different and we do not
send them reports anymore.


On the other end, a mandatory abuse field will
clean up everything in RIPEs database, remove
the unparseble remarks, will help the abuse teams
to receive reports only to ONE address, because
sender can be educated, abuse tools can be
simplified and integrated in webpages easily aso ...
A mandatory abuse field has that much advantages
for everybody who likes to work against abuse,
that I cannot understand, why people, that do not
want the same for there own reasons are against
it. Let us optimize our procedures and
if you do not want to participate, well
set the email address to whatever or ignore every
incoming mail ...


Well, there is one reasons I can think of:

Those people are not concerned, that they
have to do something against abuse coming
from there OWN resources, it must be the people
that are causing the abuse problem in the first place,
its there business, and so they are worried, that
others find easier and better methods in preventing
abuse.

So, my personal summary is:
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Anybody, who is against a mandatory abuse field,
is a professional spammer, abuser, maintains
a bot net or sells open proxies or other services
used for abusing others.
They are criminals to my opinion.

But thats only my impression ...
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Kind regards, Frank
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