Emails to abuse admins

If you've read some of the earlier posts regarding phishing or junk emails. You've seen that I usually forward details to what's called an abuse admin to deal with the issue. I thought abuse@ was an address required to be active at any given domain (I've received some delivery failures at that address though.) I did find a good list


of abuse admin addresses at an xnet.com page. Now when you first skim the list you may laugh.... they're all abuse@.... , but I've used this list a couple times this evening to see if the abuse@domain.... is monitored. I've assumed it is if it's on the list.