Thor Kottelin wrote:
Having a working abuse address is but a technicality. All mail sent to the address could still be handled by Mr Null. Another possible approach is this one:
Again, technical validation is no cure against ISPs that do not want to receive abuse reports, its a cure against contacts that are forgotten and wrong by accident or even mailservers with problems that are unrecognized by the ISP. Surely you cannot force any member to work against abuse, but we can improve the accuracy of the contacts of those, that do like it. BTW: we had this problem with Kabeldeutschland lately, they updated their contacts now and receive reports again and really do something against abuse again. This was just an mistake of the ISP (they did not recognized by weeks). The manual work to get in contact with Kabeldeutschland was really complicated and intense, it would be helpful, if RIPE NCC would have a technical validation, simply because they have better ways to contact their members, and their members probably listen to RIPE NCC quicker than to any complainant. Kind regards, Frank
Final-Recipient: RFC822; abuse@romtelecom.ro Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: DNS; it11.romtelecom.ro Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 rejected due to spam content Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:07:50 +0300
Even if the RIPE NCC would check abuse addresses by sending some kind of challenges, those messages might not trigger the spam filter of the Romanians, instead returning an OK result.
Black hat providers will always ignore abuse reports (or use them to improve their spam lists), so having an abuse address that works on the SMTP level is just a beginning, useless on its own.
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