1. They are not complaints as such. They are what AOL users click report spam on 2. They are sent in a standard format - http://www.mipassoc.org/arf/ - and if you weed out the obvious (separate forwarding traffic out through another IP, and ditto for bounce traffic), then you will find that - for actual ISPs - actual spam reports will far outweigh the amount of misclicked reports. 3. As I said, its in ARF and that's machine parseable and you can get stats from it. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Geo. <geoincidents@nls.net> wrote:
When someone like AOL offloads their user complaints of spams to all the abuse@ addresses instead of verifying that they actually are spams before sending off complaints, is it any surprise that everyone else is refusing to do their jobs for them?
The reason abuse@ addresses are useless is because what is being sent to them is useless.