<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>RE: [db-wg] Re: abuse-c: proposal</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> MarcoH <<A HREF="mailto:marcoh@marcoh.net">mailto:marcoh@marcoh.net</A>> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:25:12PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [...] > > To provide such a behaviour, we need to store the information somewhere in > the database and free-form remarks or a more generic e-mail attribute is > IMHO not the way. I have been caught in a story of alledged spam with an end-user customer and my experience is that ISP abuse team is at the crossroad between - lawyer (commercial and penal one), - wannabe hacker (coders with good programming skills and poor comprehension of the universe ;) - end-user customer that want bad guy punished and their mails delivered (especially the unsollicited one they send), - anti and pro spam lobby wich abhores one another What I understood is abuse / IP problems are mostly resolved if you teach / inform / communicate correctly. As the situation is already quite confusing and complicated I definitively want a Keep It Simple Stupid solution. IMHO abuse-c: field wich is a valid email is Simple & Stutid (aka what I need) : as a proof of concept I can successfully "sell" it today in my company to the marketing department :) Regards, Julien Tayon 9T </BODY> </HTML>