My suggestion would be actually, that if you automatically create tickets upon receipt of a message,<br>adjust your systems so as to exclude "<span><span><a href="mailto:do-not-reply@arin.net" target="_blank">do-not-reply@arin.net</a>"</span></span>, to properly direct them to a human like ARIN expects instead of creating some sort of useless ticket in a database.<br>
<br>The annoyance of 'closing a ticket' is one manufactured by using unexpected robots.<br>
I believe POCs are meant to be the human beings responsible who can be immediately reached, not necessarily automated systems, for just filing a ticket away for a while.<br><br><br>And I don't find it surprising in the least, that once in a blue moon, there is an important issue that ARIN needs to notify every single contact of -- even such that they don't get to opt out really; if they are a registrant, they have a responsibility to receive certain communications....<br>
<br>However, I dothink the notice may have been wasteful and unnecessary in this case. The warning in January about the change to 4-byte AS numbers was far more important.<br><br>The creation of a special announce list for POCs, for more general notices may be a suitable solution, but once every few years on average, I would still expect there could be an emergency notice to all POCs, depending on the severity of the issue they all need to be aprised of immediately.<br>
<br><br><br>For all I know, they had thousands of registrants complaining to ARIN about the incorrect geography search engines were giving, asking to get a block from a different /8 instead, or something.<br><br>In that case, sending a notice to the small number of contacts who had manually subscribed to a mailing list would be a highly-ineffective way of getting the notice out to the sites having issues.<br>
<br>--<br>-J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Jo Rhett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrhett@svcolo.com" target="_blank">jrhett@svcolo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
After having ARIN spam not only the Admin contacts and the POC contact<br>
of record for our business, we watched the same ARIN message hit each<br>
and every one of our different ticket/helpdesk systems -- including<br>
Abuse!<br>
<br>
I sincerely doubt that this is helpful or useful. Would it be<br>
difficult to define exactly which POC contacts should receive non-<br>
specific ARIN communications?<br>
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