Re: [anti-spam-wg] abuse address field ?

[Brian Boyle <brian.boyle@localhost]

Hi All,

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
> On 11/04/2008 10:44, "Frank Gadegast" frank@localhost wrote:
>> there was once (arround 2001) an attemp to introduce a abuse-field
>> into all whois entries, but it somehow never made it.
>>
>> Is anybody interested in opening a discussion on this again ?
> 
> What happened last time?

I think consensus was reached, and a new object (irt) type was added
to the database. Shortly after, the database query response software
was modified to return irt objects in inetnum queries if they exist.

A quick summary is available on:

http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-implemented-20050421.html

Brian.
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