[db-wg] Abuse Complaint procedures

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:18:30PM +0000, jrfoleyjr at comcast.net wrote:

> After some searching, it appears that RIPE has no actual abuse policy but that everything is still hanging in limbo.
> I was looking for an address to report hacker activity to and it appears that you are a) not in the business b) not equipped to handle it c) barely qualified to assign blocks of IP addresses so that the addressee can self-police, unless they are hacker/spammer organizations. In which case the rest of the worlds choice is to ban RIPE assigned addresses. Hopefully RIPE will mature soon!
> If in fact you DO have a group assigned for the purpose of investigating hackers, please make it available on you web page.

And of course, the "hacker report" would be coherent, polite,
constructive, correctly targetted and littered with aesthetically
pleasing literary allusions, such that the recipient would light up
with joy upon receiving it, rather than being badly formatted, rude
and confrontational...

*shakes head*

Idiots like this are the reason that those of us with legitimate security /
legal related needs for contact information find it hard to convince people
that there is sometimes a legitimate need for it.

Cheers,
  Steve