You seem to be confusing two things. >For /abuse/ reporting, however, the domain-part of the discovered >address could make a difference when a feedback generator is about to >choose among this and, say, abuse POCs found in whois databases.
Well, sure. If you find an address you trust some other way, send reports to it. > Consider > _report.myunknowndomain.name. TXT "[email protected]" Speaking both in general, and specifically as Mr. abuse.net, this is precisely what I want to forbid. I cannot tell you how many lazy or incompetent ISPs have foisted off some problem by telling their users to report it to abuse.net, which is of course completely useless and a waste of both the user's time and mine. I realize that we could invent some DNS thing with extra text records that are supposed to cross reference in some way, but I see no reason to invent yet more mechanism. If you've outsourced your abuse handling to someone else, we already know how to add a single line in your mail config to forward your abuse address to them. At last that way when some bozo forwards his complaints to me without asking, I only have one address to blacklist. R's, John _______________________________________________ marf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf
