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Re: [marf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-marf-as-07.txt

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <shmuel+mail-abuse-feedback-report@patriot.net> Wed, 08 February 2012 21:02 UTC

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In
<F5833273385BB34F99288B3648C4F06F19C9A7DC86@EXCH-C2.corp.cloudmark.com>,
on 02/08/2012
   at 12:26 PM, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> said:

>It seems to me that providing a mechanism to tell a report generator
>to knock it off certainly does fit within the second part of that
>admonition.  Think of the extreme case where a report generator is
>mailbombing some address extracted by heuristics.

If it's sending only one report per abusive message received and
sending it to the owner of the source IP then it's not mailbombing. 

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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