russ@consumer.net wrote:
*2011-06: *
Russ,
At the same time RIPE is blocking access to abuse contacts claiming they
Sure, abuse contacts are currently mixed with personal contacts, there is currently no way to sperate public abuse contacts from personal contacts. And thats what the proposal tries to change. You will have no access restrictions for the abuse contact anymore and the new abuse-c will be filled in a very short period because it will be mandatory.
need to protect the data. What exactly is this working group trying to do? Is it to make it easier to route complaints or protect the abuse contacts from spammers?
There will be no restrictions on the abuse-c, this is an argument against the proposal, because abuse contacts will maybe be flodded a bit more with spam, specially because the spammers will find these "new" email addresses quite attractiv. But maybe they will not find them attractiv at all, because they know, that they will only reach professionals there, that can easily seperated spam from good mail and that are trained not to click every link in an email ;o) I would like to know, how much spam is really arriving at the abuse-mailbox addresses that currently exist. We are a small RIPE member and we receive only about 10 spams per month on our abuse-mailbox address (and our address is easily guessable anyway, so its likely, that spammers harvested it on a different way than looking it up via whois). So, how much spam is really arriving on abuse-mailbox address ? Maybe some on this list could check their maillogs and give an overview ? But anyway: it will be possible to protect personal contacts much better in the future, if the proposal gets through, because access restrictions could be raised here and thats a big point FOR the\ proposal.
I would also suggest that links be placed to pending proposals on the group's web page at https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/anti-abuse.
Thank You
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