[db-wg] abuse-c: proposal

Ulli,

On 29 Jan 2004, at 14:03, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote (privately):

> What is the difference between the following to answers from the 
> database (One with the existing Machine [ changing the default answer 
> behaviour] and one following the proposal):

I want to share my response with the list.

No difference between the answers.  The difference is in the cost to 
(effort for)
a netadmin in setting up the IRT stuff.  Marco's statistics, as I 
understood them,
seem to bear this out: there is a ratio of 2 orders of magnitude 
between the
instances respectively of IRT references and free-text remarks about 
abuse
notifications.

I'm close to convinced that the IRT approach is correct, elegant, and 
the rest.
I just find it too much trouble to use: I need it to be much easier 
than that
to advertise my abuse contacts.  As the saying goes, "Le mieux est 
l'ennemi du
bien."  Make it barely good enough, but simple; then we'll see it 
adopted.

Niall

PS.  "Daddy, what does 'feature creep' mean?"