Miss Betsy Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Sorry I am showing my ignorance here but do you mean like a Postmaster[at] address?? where people can send complaints about issues they have encountered with emails from the domain, for example. 39826[/snapback] Usually people send complaints to the 'abuse' address rather than the postmaster address. Often the larger administrators have the abuse address in the whois information. There is a web site where domains can register 'abuse' addresses - abuse.net - and savvy administrators register their addresses there. Postmaster is the absolutely last resort (for the parser as well as the individual reporter). I am not sure exactly why this practice has developed (instead of using Postmaster), but the chances are it is because the spammers abused the address. Miss Betsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agsteele Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I am not sure exactly why this practice has developed (instead of using Postmaster), but the chances are it is because the spammers abused the address.39830[/snapback] Hi Miss Betsy! Surprisingly, perhaps, but the abuse[at] address appears in RFC 2142 which dates back to May 1997 so it has been around for quite some time Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 the abuse[at] address appears in RFC 2142 which dates back to May 1997 so it has been around for quite some time 39833[/snapback] "<ABUSE[at]domain>" was in use as a defacto standard for quite some time before RFC2142 Mailbox Names for Common Services was drafted - see "Defacto standards also exist for well known mailbox names which have nothing to do with a particular protocol, e.g., <ABUSE[at]domain>" in Section 1 on Page 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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