I recently had some complaints bounced because of an incorrect domain name supplied by Abuse.net. First, I sent Jeff a message with the relevant Sp@mX log and APNIC info in the hope that he would come up with one of his brilliant solutions. Then I did an APNIC lookup and got the right one and sent Abuse.net an update message in their preferred format. I included the following in my message to Jeff:

Here's the response I got from Abuse.net:

He apparently thinks he has the correct address. I replied to him with the output from his own database:

It was all very polite, so I'm hoping for a positive outcome. Still, it doesn't inspire hope when the postmaster doesn' check his own database before rejecting an update/correction.

So much for politeness! All my teachers, not to mention my parents, told me that it counted for a great deal. In this case, Spammers: 1, Spamfighters: 0.

Here's the reply I got and my response:

At least he replies quickly.

I've had dealings with this fellow before. He wasn't very helpful then either. I think he was more interested in telling me about how he was the postmaster for umpty ump domains, than he was in helping me with the issue of that day...

I feel confident that someone other than him is ultimately responsible for this domain.

They mention the Incredible Electric Calculator Company on their site like it is a 'parent'. Maybe you could try contacting hostmaster at iecc dot com and hope it's not the same fellow...

Here's his latest response.

I don't have an answer for this because Sp@mX 2.0.6 got hung on sending to this address (Jeff, see e-mail correspondence from me on this.) I changed the address to "anti-spam@ns.chinanet.cn.net." I should have remembered to leave it at the default Abuse.net address, but I didn't. Not to worry, though. I'm confident I'll get more s*p*a*m from this domain.