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by walrus01 1239 days ago
Sure, turn loose these tools to answer the actual spammers/UCE. But:

Speaking as an ISP, if somebody turns loose what is clearly an AUTOMATED tool shitting up the contents of my abuse@ispname.com inbox with reports from some software script, I can guarantee you it goes to /dev/null

At some point we will just block their MX at the SMTP transfer point and call it a day.

98% of that already is abusive DMCA rights holders who are ignoring our federally designated DMCA-agent address for copyright violation complaints. With their automated 3rd party things complaining about people torrenting Yellowstone or whatever.

Actual reports that are clearly written by a human saying "hey it looks like this /32 of an IP address is compromised as some sort of botnet" will get a thousand times more attention. Or the very rare cases where we have a network-engineering emergency escalation and somebody calls me on the phone.

Anything generated by chatGPT or similar will be clearly obvious enough that it matches a similar pattern and comes from an automated script.