I forgot an important step here, germane to this discussion, I will also send an abuse report to whatever abuse address is listed by whois.abuse.net for the owner of the IP address's enclosing block. If my abuse report is bounced (e.g. the listed abuse address is spamtrapped or otherwise not accepting mail), I will be far more inclined to blacklist the offending IP and possibly its enclosing block.
Christopher
If someone does a whois.abuse.net whois on hambone.ca, they will get this:
Whois has started ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (default, no info)
However, if they do an ARIN whois on the IP 206.47.27.217 they will get:
OrgName: Bell Canada OrgID: LINX ---snip--- NetRange: 206.47.0.0 - 206.47.255.255 CIDR: 206.47.0.0/16 ---snip--- TechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the first case, I would get the mail. In the second place, my upstream ISP would get the mail.
I don't have a listed abuse address, nor does Bell, so it would seem.
And for those (like me) who let Spamcop do all the work, they report:
SpamCop version 1.3.3 (c) Julian Haight, Joel Martin 1998-2003 All Rights Reserved
Parsing input: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206.47.27.217 is an mx ( 5 ) for hambone.ca host 206.47.27.217 (getting name) = cpu1736.adsl.bellglobal.com. No recent reports, no history available 206.47.27.217 is an mx ( 5 ) for hambone.ca
Tracking ip 206.47.27.217 Routing details for 206.47.27.217 [refresh/show] Cached whois for 206.47.27.217 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using abuse net on [EMAIL PROTECTED] abuse net in.bell.ca = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using best contacts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Statistics: 206.47.27.217 not listed in bl.spamcop.net. More Information.. 206.47.27.217 not listed in dnsbl.njabl.org 206.47.27.217 not listed in dnsbl.njabl.org 206.47.27.217 not listed in proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl 206.47.27.217 not listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net 206.47.27.217 not listed in relays.ordb.org.
Reporting addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Neil
Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 Tel: (613) 829-4668
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