Re: Should abuse mailboxes have quotas?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami anime net> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm tired of blatantly uncaring administrations.
> > it's also totally possible that in some cases the mailbox for abuse@ got
> > moved behind some orgs other mail systems... This happened numerous times
> > at $PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER. When moving around ~200k mailboxes 1 special
> > unicorn
> > often gets mishandled :(
> >
> > we wouldn't find out until someone called in all complainy about how 'you
> > never care about email... blah...' "Sure we care, but our mail-admin team
> > sometimes breaks us, whoops!"
> >
> > ascribing malice is often unhelpful... Also, of course it's your network
> > you can balkanize from the rest of the internet as much as you please.
>
> not so much malice as gross incompetence.
>
> running spamfilters on your abuse@ mailbox, really? that is, for those
> which actually have an abuse mailbox that doesn't bounce outright.
>
> again, ascribing malice where it doesn't necessarily exist isn't helpful.