[anti-abuse-wg] AS16019, vodafone.cz == idiots

Some days I am inclined to wonder how or why anything at all actually
works on this planet.  I suspect that I am not alone, given that
Covid-19 has now exposed for all the world to see just how inept and
dysfunctional even so-called "first world" systems are at dealing
with anything that is even just a little bit out of the ordinary.

Another case in point: AS16019 aka vodafone.cz, whose formally
declared abuse reporting address, as given in the WHOIS record
for the ASN, is abuse at vodafone.cz.  Unfortunately, if you send
a copy of a spam that you have received from their network to that
address, you will get back something that may look vaguely like this:

<spamrd at vf.dkm.cz>: host mail2.dkm.cz[62.24.64.36] said: 550 5.7.1
    <spamrd at vf.dkm.cz>: Recipient address rejected: Please see
    http://www.openspf.net/Why?s=mfrom;id=rfg%40tristatelogic.com;ip=80.95.99.97;r=mail2.dkm.cz

So, the retorical question for the day is:  Just how completely idiotic
does any given group of network operators have to be in order to be
unable to just simply operate a functioning email address for inbound
messages?

I guess Vodafone is either too broke or too cheap to hire merely competent
people.

It would be one thing if this was an impoverished third-world country
involved here, but it isn't.  It's the Czech Republic.  So what is their
excuse for this level of sheer incompetence?

Does someone need to send a formal memo to Vodafone, explaining to them
about this thing called spam?

And why are they even leaving port 25 outbound open on end-luser lines?


Regards,
rfg