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Abuse emails might occasionally work, but that hardly answers the question. Abuse emails can be useful to the recipient. Abuse emails do not benefit the sende
by prvit 4y ago
Abuse emails might occasionally work, but that hardly answers the question.
Abuse emails can be useful to the recipient.
Abuse emails do not benefit the sender in any way, there is no return on investment. It's just particularly unimpactful charity work.
- INTPenis 4y agoThe return is that you hopefully stop or punish the transgressions that caused you to send the abuse report. But on second thought I must agree that it's probably the other way around, that people listening to abuse reports are the exception rather than the norm. I might have had some good experiences because I dealt with major ISPs in northern europe who are sticklers for the rules and processes.
- prvit 4y ago> The return is that you hopefully stop or punish the transgressions that caused you to send the abuse report. How is that a return? What genuine benefit can you draw from stopping one of the thousands of internet-wide scans from stopping your server?
- ggeorgovassilis 4y agoDepending where you stand philosphically, I witnessed that "paying it forward" works. In this instance, if people start using whois abuse reports they will become more effective. Also, the few reports I submitted were always processed and led to (at least) a website reset.