On 22 Oct 2009, at 00:01, Tobias Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I use to report spam to the spam abuse mailboxes which are defined by the whois database.
Which one??
Good question. We (abusix) are trying to get a new Best Practice done.
Please have a look at the attachment. That's a first draft to get a standardized place for abuse addresses. Once this is done and accepted as a best practice we could take the next step and try to get it mandatory and lets see what will happen than.
Does that address the question posed though? ie. which whois database
However, I'm always encountering the below issues: - the mailbox domain isn't valid - the mailbox is full - the mailbox doesn't exist
http://abusix.org/services/abuse-contact-db
Could be interesting for you. ;-)
Who can I contact in order to ensure the Whois database is tidied up.
I tried to reach the top registry of the domain (-l whois option).
However nobody is fixing those reference databases !
Could we possibly disconnect the network which aren't tidying their whois records ?
We had some good effort by doing the global reporting thing. Possibly you wanna join us and report your stuff globally. If you need helpor some scripts for ARF reporting. Let me know.
Oh how I hate those things! I'm sick to death of our abuse desk being flooded with reports about mailscanner.info Please tell me you've whitelisted it!
Whatever you do to move RIPE and those members, let us know. We will support you.
Spam and abuse (in general) are global problems.
Thanks,
Tobias
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