[db-wg] abuse-c: proposal

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:11:11AM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
> > > Make sure that part of the docs is surrounded by the stuff about where to
> > > find certain information...if they read the docs, they would also be able
> > > to figure out that changed: and notify: are not meant as an abuse pointer.
> > 
> > They do not read the docs at all.  They parse any ascii that comes back
> > for something that syntactically looks like and e-mail address.  One way
> > to stop this might be to identify the tool authors and put as many of
> > their e-mail addresses as one can find in free text in objects.  ;-)
> 
> Some of us read the docs :)

But do you also implement complaining tools...if that's the case more info
on how it works would be welcome as is input on the usabillity of the
database from a 'user' perspective.