[57304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Abuse.cc ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Apr 3 10:36:32 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:05:55 EST."
<390E55B947E7C848898AEBB9E507706041E630@msmdcfs01.msmgmt.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:31:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <390E55B947E7C848898AEBB9E507706041E630@msmdcfs01.msmgmt.com>, "McBu
rnett, Jim" writes:
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>I just made a number of abuse complaints to a provider and then after =
>contacting the abuse #.=20
>I got told that they don't use abuse@ anymore. that abuse.cc is the new =
>email address.
>
>Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this against RFC current practice?
>
Yes -- see RFC 2142. But the IETF has no enforcement arm...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
