Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?

[Rob Szarka <szlists () szarka org>]

At 02:18 PM 4/13/2008, Barry Shein wrote:
> Is it abuse@domain or spam@domain or support@domain or
> postmaster@domain (very commonly used) or ???@domain. Who cares? But
> let's pick ONE, stuff it in an RFC or BCP and try to get each other to
> conform to it.

abuse@domain is *already* specified (in RFC 2142).

Granted, separating reports of email abuse from those for other forms 
of abuse might be useful for large providers, but since we can't even 
get many domains even to set up the already-specified abuse@ address, 
much less read the mail we send to it, I'm not convinced that it 
would help. OTOH, many email providers seem to think it's my job to 
know what their internal organization is and re-route email to some 
spam-specific email reporting address. While that is just rude and 
ignorant behavior in my book, at least having a single standardized 
address would be an improvement...