Well, I think our disagreement is on what we constitute 'legitimate abuse' to be.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:51 PM Mukund Sivaraman <m...@mukund.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 01:49:14PM -0400, Tom Beecher wrote: > > What if I am at home, and while working on a project, fire off a wide > > ranging nmap against say a /19 work network to validate something > > externally? Should my ISP detect that and make a decision that I > shouldn't > > be doing that, even though it is completely legitimate and authorized > > activity? What if I fat fingered a digit and accidentally ran that same > > scan against someone else's /19? Should that accidental destination of > > non-malicious scans be able to file an abuse report against me and get my > > service disconnected because they didn't like it? > > > > Abuse departments should be properly handling LEGITIMATE abuse > complaints. > > Not crufty background noise traffic that is never going away. > > Sure. Handling legitimate abuse complaints would be quite sufficient. :) > > Mukund >