On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, William Devine, II wrote:
I used RT a looong time ago around 1998 & 1999 and liked it, but OTRS, compared to THEN features is superior. I haven't tried RT yet, although I did start installing it and I know I gave up on RT once when trying to install it but got OTRS up and running rather easily, so I can't say about their new things. I do know that there is a feature article this month in Linux journal, Linux review or one of the Linux related mags that states that OTRS is used by one national British ISP that pumps 20,000 tickets per DAY through it, and one business that has around 2,000 CSR's using OTRS for customer support services, both using MySQL as the database backend. I thought that was a pretty good testament as well.
We have been using RT for some time now, and it's incredibly easy to get up and running (especially with a ports system). It's not even close to processing 20k tickets/day, but it definitely handles what we give it. RT has its quirks, but Jesse Vincent is a good guy, and it's mindbogglingly easy to customize it. There's more testemonials in the NANOG archives I believe. And getting back to the original post... Mikael Abrahamsson asked:
Is there an abuse case management system as freeware somewhere, something like all the ticket/case handling packages out there, but more specifically aimed at abuse/complaint handling. I googled some but couldnt find any.
I haven't checked it out yet, but Jesse's written an interface to RT specifically for Abuse desks - it's called RTIR. Look through http://www.bestpractical.com/ and http://www.fsck.com/pub/ for mote details. - Damian