[db-wg] abuse-c
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MarcoH
marcoh at marcoh.net
Mon Jan 12 14:44:23 CET 2004
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:45:09AM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: > > Realistically speaking it is not very likely that stupid tools will > change very soon. Nonetheless I like the proposal of a simple > 'abuse-mailbox' attribute containing an e-mail address and nothing else. > This would open the possibility to ask tool-writers not to spam all the > other e-mail addresses in the inet*num objects and any object remotely > related to them. In other words: we provide specific information where > to send such messages, so it is a Bad Idea(TM) to send it anywhere > else. > > I do not think we should make this attribute mandatory however, as > introducing mandatory attributes is difficult in existing objects that > have significant deployment. Furthermore making an attribute mandatory > tends to decrease its meaningfulness somewhat as people fill in > 'anything' if they do not have meaningful data to provide. > Preventing general spam from stupid tools and getting abuse e-mail > concentrated in one mailbox should be enough motivation for deployment. > > I am also in favour of adding the 'abuse-mailbox' attribute to the > maintainer object in order to provide a quick way for deployment that > does not involve changing a lot of inet*num objects. The referencing > recommendation should be: "If the inet*num object for the address > concerned has an 'abuse-mailbox', use this address *only* for sending > abuse complaints. If such an attribute is not present, check the > maintainer object for an 'abuse-mailbox' attribute and use this address > *only* for sending abuse complaints." I totally agree on this, this will give a clear and easy to understand/implement mechanism for people writing whatever tool to find abuse handling addresses. Grtx, MarcoH
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