On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:21 PM, John Levine wrote: >> Not entirely. I think that encouraging people to send unsolicited, >> non-human-readable email to email addresses harvested from domain or >> IP registration addresses, or to role accounts intended to receive >> human readable email, isn't a good idea and we might want to spend >> more space on the problems with that. > > On the other hand, I've been sending ARF reports to random abuse > contacts for years, and have found that it works pretty well. > Remember that by design, the first part of an ARF report is free text > for the benefit of humans who might be reading it.
If the report is fully actionable and makes sense to a recipient who only has access to the text/plain part, that's not a non-human-readable email, and my concern doesn't apply. I'm not against using ARF for unsolicited reports, I'm against sending unsolicited reports that aren't actionable by the recipient. Anyway, see my suggested edits in 3.. 2.. 1... > I'd be OK with either "do this at your own risk", or pull it out and > save it for another document. Telling people not to send ARF reports > to abuse addresses because it won't work flies in the face of > experience. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ marf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf
