Hello All, I just checked the IP in question, 62.239.237.250 in Whois and there is nothing confusing about it, especially the Abuse reporting channel. inetnum: 62.239.237.0 - 62.239.237.255 remarks: Please send abuse notification to mailto:btcertcc@bt.com role: BT Corporate Registry address: British Telecommunications address: 81 Newgate Street address: London GB e-mail: ip.manager@bt.com remarks: trouble: mailto: mailto:btcertcc@bt.com And they have even listed the contact for their security related issues: remarks: BT Security Computer Emergency Response Team mnt-by: BTENT-MNT changed: mailto:steve.a.marshall@bt.com ++++ Cheers, Reza Farzan rezaf@mindspring.com ________________________________ From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Aftab Siddiqui Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 6:50 AM To: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Cc: Denis Walker; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Manual vs automated reports Hi Michele I tried that now. It's very confusing. Agree to that. It's not at all clear if the search box will take an IP address or not ... Should be mentioned clearly with ? box I tried one and got back a "result" which I could click on .. When I did I got "ERROR:115: invalid search key" Yes, you are right. It happens many times. I guess it is still in beta phase. We have found an easy way to do it. I guess that legit curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/use-cases/abuse-ripe&primary-key=+62.239.237.2 50 | grep abuse-mail Just pass the abuser IP (here I've mentioned bt subnet and thats it. Its just a work around. Regards, Aftab A. Siddiqui