Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

Sat Apr 7 22:44:19 UTC 2007

Frank Bulk wrote:
 > [[Attribution deleted by Frank Bulk]]
>> Neither I nor J. Oquendo nor anyone else are required to 
>> spend our time, our money, and our resources figuring out which 
>> parts of X's network can be trusted and which can't.  
> 
> It's not that hard, the ARIN records are easy to look up.  Figuring out that
> network operator has a /8 that you want to block based on 3 or 4 IPs in
> their range requires just as much work.

It's *very* hard to do it with an automated system, as such automated 
look-ups are against the Terms of Service for every single RIR out there.

Please play the bonus round:  try again.