[arin-discuss] The joy of SWIPping

[Paul Vixie]

> As far as contacing customers via whois lookup, is there some reason the 
> ISP can't act as an agent for the customer?  This is sort of like the 
> various domain whois privacy services...but not nearly as slimely IMO.

as far as that goes, is there general support here for the idea of the RIRs
running mail forwarders for well-formatted non-robotic abuse complaints that
can be forwarded to the registered operator of the netblock, without exposing
the operator's internal ticket system e-mail address via whois?