It will be wonderful when the RIPE NCC people are able to verify that all abuse reporting addresses listed in the RIPE data base are at least able to receive incoming mail. The alone, of course, will not do anything to insure that any human ever reads any message or message sent to any such e-mail address. That separate and additional issue is a whole separate can of worms. Here is an example. I just received a spam from 195.12.186.6 which is quite clearly on the network of AS47205, aka telia.lt. so I sent a polite abuse report, inclduing the full spam headers, to the <abuse@telia.lt> address, just as I am instructed to do by the RIPE WHOIS record for AS47205. I received back, almost immediately, the automated response appended below. This response appears to me to be saying that the managers of AS47205 are intending to 100% ignore my spam report, unless and until I ALSO take up my time to fill out their stupid web form... a web form that has a checkbox for every other kind of network abuse EXCEPT for spamming. I do not have time in my day to figure out how to fill out the eighteen million different kinds of web forms that each separate ASN has concocted in order to try to thwart and deter people from reporting simple kinds of abuse like spamming, and I will not do so. The offense in this case was committed over email, and I do not see why the REPORT of that offense should not likewise be accepted over email. For this reason, it is my hope that whoever in NCC is doing the abuse email address verification will take some steps to find out not just that the email addresses accept incoming email, but also that some actual human sits behind each one of those email addresses. Anybody can easily program what is sometimes called an "ignorebot" to send out meaningless replies to incoming mail, just s telia.lt appears to have done, but that is not a productive way to actually resolve spamming issues. Of course, it is my hope that telia.lt will rid itself of this particular troublesome customer, but in lieu of that I would be willing to accept that their abuse handler(s) have at least been made aware of the issue. But it seems that even that minimal aspiration is too much to hope for, at least for some networks. 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Ðiuo adresu gauname daug ávairiø praneðimø. Tam, kad galëtume operatyviai iðspræsti Jûsø klausimà, praðome skirti minutæ ir patikslinti klausimà, dël kurio kreipiatës. Praðome uþpildyti trumpà anketà<https://www.telia.lt/abuse>, kuri padës mums greièiau ir tiksliau Jums atsakyti. Pagarbiai Telia Hello, Thank You for your message. We receive many different messages to this address. In order to handle your question, we are kindly requesting you to spend a minute of your time and to specify your question. Please fill in a short questionnaire<https://www.telia.lt/abuse/en>, which will help us to give a prompter and more accurate reply to your question. Kind regards, Sveiki, Dekojame uz zinute. Siuo adresu gauname daug ivairiu pranesimu. Tam, kad galetume operatyviai isspresti Jusu klausima, prasome skirti minute ir patikslinti klausima, del kurio kreipiates. Prasome uzpildyti trumpa [1]anketa, kuri pades mums greiciau ir tiksliau Jums atsakyti. Pagarbiai Telia Hello, Thank You for your message. We receive many different messages to this address. In order to handle your question, we are kindly requesting you to spend a minute of your time and to specify your question. Please fill in a short [2]questionnaire, which will help us to give a prompter and more accurate reply to your question. Kind regards, Telia References 1. https://www.telia.lt/abuse 2. https://www.telia.lt/abuse/en