>>It seems to me that providing a mechanism to tell a report generator >>to knock it off certainly does fit within the second part of that >>admonition. Think of the extreme case where a report generator is >>mailbombing some address extracted by heuristics. > >If it's sending only one report per abusive message received and >sending it to the owner of the source IP then it's not mailbombing.
If the heuristic guessed wrong and it's some poor schnook getting a mountain of someone else's abuse reports, it most definitely is. No source of contact information is infallible. For the N+1'th time, standards can't make people do anything they're not inclined to do. Forcing abuse reports on people who don't want them will not make the abuse stop, nor accomplish anything else useful. R's, John _______________________________________________ marf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf
