[BULK] Re: SORBS contact

Sat Jul 30 10:31:04 UTC 2011

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:45:52AM -0400, Dan Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michelle Sullivan <matthew at sorbs.net> wrote:
> > Emailing random non-existent email addresses (such as
> > webmaster at sorbs.net) will earn you a listing...
> 
> webmaster@* isn't "random", it's a fairly standard way to reach the
> administrator of a service. 

Per RFC 2142 section 5, it's the standard way to reach the administrator
of the HTTP service, just as "hostmaster" is the standard way to reach
the administrator of the DNS service.   So you're both wrong: SORBS,
since it has a web site, should support the "webmaster" address; and
you shouldn't send traffic there unless your enquiry is about the
web site (e.g., difficulty accessing it, broken links, malformed pages).

---rsk