From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 05:17:36 CST
In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020201091543.2734A-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
>On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Brad Templeton wrote:
>> I will note that we can save a lot of bytes if, while defining this
>> header, we define a default for it (usenet-complaints@injector-host) so
>> that if people want to enable the default address, they don't need to put
>> in the header.
> Arrgh! We have spent years trying to get people to send technical stuff
>to usenet@ or news@ and complaints to abuse@ and you want to create a new
>standard address? Why? Expecting complainers to learn a bunch of
>addresses is optimistic at best, and don't even trot out the old "the
>software can do it" line, unless you can show me that there is such a
>feature in widely used software. People aren't going to upgrade or change
>software to please us!
Indeed so. Our draft recommends using abuse@... in cases where the
Complaints-To header is absent.
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