[122214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Feb 9 15:57:00 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1002091551570.31777@uplift.swm.pp.se>
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk-lists@cybernothing.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:56:17 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, John Peach wrote:
>=20
>> Damn forms; whatever happened to abuse@ addresses?
>=20
> A few years I proposed a standard way to report abuse by email =
(X-headers) but nobody was interested.
There's a (draft, de facto) standard format for automated reports =
between providers:
http://mipassoc.org/arf/
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/marf/
> I suspect forms are because the abuse desks want necessary information =
in a structured way that doesn't have to be manually processed each =
time, plus trying to hunt people who can't realise what information is =
needed to do a proper abuse complaint.
Yep, that's certainly part of it.
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J.D. Falk <jdfalk@returnpath.net>
Return Path Inc
