>> Um. I must be msising something. What, pray tell, do you think the
>> administrative conjtact address _is_ for, if not administrative
>> issues? Or do you not consider disciplining spammous users to be an
>> adminsitrative matter?
> We find it effective to use a dedicated role mailbox for each of (a
> small number of) categories of administrative issues. We take care
> to advertise this in the whois records for our networks.
....in a non-machine-parseable format.
Anything that depends on a human is reading the entry for correct
functioning is arguably broken; the reason for having a strict defined
format is so that the thing is machine parseable.
If you think there should be a way of tagging some addresses with "this
address is for abuse issues", well, I agree with you; that's what
putting up an abuse contact would be about. (If RIPE doesn't support
abuse contacts - I don't know - then perhaps you as a RIPE constituent
should work on having that changed, because it's causing you trouble.)
Or perhaps "we" should set up a separate database covering ripe,
arin, and all the rest ("reportabuse.net"? "abuse.info"?), which
could also double as some sort of verification mechanism
(supplementary to other mechanisms).