On 4/12/2004 11:31 AM, Robert Blayzor wrote:
address are getting lost in the fray. Having our techs/engineers go through the abuse@ box every day to play hide and seek is a bit of an agonizing task that nobody really wants, especially at the volume it is
On the other hand, making me spend half an hour or more of my workday filling out forms for you just pushes the costs outside of your network and into mine. That's pretty rude, don't you think? Worse is that it's shortsighted. If everybody did this, then those reversed costs will get back to your own operation at some point. One day you'll find *yourself* spending several hours a day filling out abuse reports for other people's networks, whereas you used to be able to just forward them via email. Congratulations on raising everybody's costs, including your own.
today. If there was a standard that worked for this, we would certainly follow it.
Standardized scripts would also be abused. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/