[133237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Abuse@ contacts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Seagraves)
Tue Dec 7 12:14:54 2010
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <CD47955B7E065D48AB5CF226C2ED75C02E3A8E@tbs-sbs01.TBS.local>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:14:40 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Gavin Pearce wrote:
> After a weekend of heavy spam last month, we decided to fire some
> reports over to the abuse contacts for each relevant IP or domain - some
> US/Europe based, others from more "obscure" locations.
>
> We've not had a reply from any of the reports sent over, other than some
> automated bounces. Each report from us contained detailed information
> about IP, date, headers, spam content, relevant ranges etc ...
>
> How many of you (honestly) actively manage and respond to abuse@ contact
> details listed in WHOIS? Or have had any luck with abuse@ contacts in
> the past? Who's good and who isn't?
I answer ours, and I've sent a few abuse complaints (sometimes in error...)
I haven't kept count, but I'd say I get an answer at least 50% of the time.
