Re: To email or not to email...

Well, it better be a different domain, less the load-balancer, which has
been programmed to block the connection from the IP won't let the abuse
report in.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:18 AM
> To: Bruce Brown
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: To email or not to email...
> 
> Bruce Brown wrote:
> > Without opening up the can-o-works of what is spam and what is abuse, I
> > think "it" happens a lot and with zombies running about, happen from
> > everywhere. My concern is that those reporting abuse are also
> themselves,
> > being abusers - at least it will happen in some cases. This leads to the
> > problem that if you're blocking mail from abusers, you're not going to
> > receive abuse reports from them via email. Consequently, there seems to
> be
> 
> Any ISP with a grain of sense typically has its abuse / postmaster
> mailbox exempted from all filtering.
> 
> Even without that, there are yahoo / hotmail / gmail etc accounts that
> can be used to contact abuse desks.
> 
> > need for a different protocol or a different abuse reporting address in
> DNS
> > for the domain.
> 
> I doubt it.  abuse / postmaster and other role accounts are standards
> that have been around for ages, and even listed in various rfcs (most of
> which are, I think, informational / bcp, but still..)
> 
> 	srs