[db-wg] abuse-c

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> >Im not sure why it should be multiple? But I think most of us on this list
> >can agree with you that a valid abuse email address associated with each
> >inetnum in the database would be very welcome.
> 
> Just a stupid question: how do you assure the address is valid in the 
> first place, and after that stays valid,  i.e. there is a human behind 
> it reading it? (without putting additional workload on the NCC manual 
> validating all of these)

Let's just limit it to be syntactically correct accoording to whatever the
rfc at that moment specify as 'syntactically correct'.

There is no other way of ensuring that it's valid on a certain moment.
There is still some form of 'trust' involved as to the point that the LIR
inserting the address takes abuse serious. And I hope the majority still
does, so the system would work and people don't have to use other things
like mailing all addresses they can find related to an address upto and
including hostmaster at ripe.net.

MarcoH