Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
Automated spam reports lead to errors
We get loads of them regarding mailscanner.info which has never sent a single email in its entire life
Hm, thats bad for you, but its not an argument for a machine readable abuse field. It should be up to anybody to report spam, automatically or manually, but at least he should have the possibility. And whats better than a mandatory field. Many netblock entries contain a log of different email address, so that a normal user cannot even decide wich one to take. And: do you know how many RIPE whois entries have no email address at all ? Well I do. I always thought, that at least a normal email address field is mandatory, but we have 12504 RIPE netblocks here in our database without ANY email address. And they are not unused, that are netblocks we get spam from ! And this is to my knowledge since 2 years and didnt change. We reported this to RIPE a couple of times. Only answer was: we think about what we can do. Forming an anti-abuse group is then kind of a laugh, isnt it ? Kind regards, Frank
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