[PLUG-TALK] Contacts at ISPs

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Sun Feb 11 23:27:49 UTC 2018


On 02/11/2018 08:13 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    A spam message just arrived in my inbox and when I queried whois for the
> sending ISP I was struck by the fact that the contact for abuse, tech,
> network operations, ... all listed contacts ... was the same person who has
> an outlook.com e-mail account. I've seen other contacts with e-mail 
> accounts
> at gmail, yahoo, and hotmail, too.

If something goes wrong with the domain, having all the contact emails 
using addresses at the broken domain is less than desirable.  Using an 
alternate email address allows for a fallback if things go south.

galen




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