On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: > Philip Prindeville wrote: > > Between the truly clueless administrator, and those that feign > > ignorance to cover up their implicit approval of spammers... > > > > What do you do in the case where someone is filtering deliveries to > > their "abuse" mailbox? (Like 99% of mail sent there isn't going to > > score positively...)
I have a form note that I send to the postmaster address whenever a report to the abuse address is bounced. It says (1) you need a working abuse address and (2) you shouldn't filter it. > I filter my abuse address. Otherwise it would get so many spam > messages, the ham would get lost in the noise. > > Only send the headers. If the body is actually needed post it on > some webpage. To heck with that. If I have to jump through that many hoops to report abuse in *your* network, I'm just going to roundfile it. It's enough work to pick out all of the relevant abuse addresses to forward the message to, and note the type of abuse (lottery, 419, money laundering, etc.). I almost don't report abuse to Yahoo because they refuse to deal with RFC-822 attachments and want the entire original message in the body, and that makes reporting abuse containing a Yahoo.* contact address two separate operations - forward as attachment to the relay owner, and forward in the body to Yahoo. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. -- Lyndon B. Johnson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 days until Veterans Day
