On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: > >> Being that I am a domain registrar (small but still) how will I > >> know if they have a working postmaster or abuse alias? > > > > Easy. Send them an email and see if they respond. Make it clear in the > > service agreement that they (hopefully) read before registering a > > domain that this is a requirement. > > A three line procmail recipe handles that very nicely. You get through > but everybody else is discarded. Your next move is...?
Send the query from a different domain, one not the registrar's. The service agreement would have to specify that responding to only the registrar's queries and discarding others would be grounds for suspending the domain. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is when people look at Yahoo, slashdot, or groklaw and jump from obvious and correct observations like "Oh my God, this place is teeming with utter morons" to incorrect conclusions like "there's nothing of value here". -- Al Petrofsky, in Y! SCOX -----------------------------------------------------------------------