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Re: Abuse response [Was: RE: Yahoo Mail Update]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Apr 15 01:58:03 2008

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:34:45 GMT
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- -- "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

>If you send reports with lots of legal boilerplate, or reports with
>long lectures on why you expect an INSTANT TAKEDOWN, and send them to
>a busy abuse queue, there is no way - and zero reason - for the ISP
>people to prioritize your complaint above all the other complaints
>coming in.

In fact, we have done just that -- develop a standard boilerplate
very similar to what PIRT uses in its notification(s) to the
stakeholders in phishing incidents.

Again, our success rate is somewhere in the 50% neighborhood.

And that is after a few months of fine-tuning -- and 15 years of
experience in these matters. :-)

Nothing to write home about...

- - ferg

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