On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, John Peach wrote: > >> Damn forms; whatever happened to abuse@ addresses? > > A few years I proposed a standard way to report abuse by email (X-headers) > but nobody was interested.
There's a (draft, de facto) standard format for automated reports between providers: http://mipassoc.org/arf/ http://tools.ietf.org/wg/marf/ > I suspect forms are because the abuse desks want necessary information in a > structured way that doesn't have to be manually processed each time, plus > trying to hunt people who can't realise what information is needed to do a > proper abuse complaint. Yep, that's certainly part of it. -- J.D. Falk <jdf...@returnpath.net> Return Path Inc