On October 31, 2005 at 08:07, Michael Thomas wrote: > I'm sorry, I don't see what the problem is here. A "user" of > example.com is violating example.com's stated policy. This > sounds exactly like the case that example.com wants to > limit. Is it your position that owners of domains have no > say so about the ToS and that "users" (where "user" = > anybody who wants to assert they are a user, miscreants > and all as is the case today) trump all other considerations?
It is a balance. Technically, domain owners can do whatever they want, but it would negligent of us to ignore what any new protocol will do to existing uses of email, especially from the end-user's perspective. These impacts can be technical, social, political, and/or even legal in nature. Right now, for many users, there is an expectation they can use there email address as they see fit. Of course, this is not unbound since for some addresses business policies (justifiably) take precedence. This is no different than existing policies of an employee using their company identity for non-company related business. But for cases like email service providers, the "rules" are different. We are talking about customers not employees. I do not recall seeing any terms in my ToS for my ISP stating restrictions on how I can use my email address or that I cannot use alternate originating email addresses in mail I send out through there SMTP servers (which I currently do all the time). Does Gmail or Yahoo have a ToS that prevents me from using my Gmail or Yahoo address in emails I send out from other domains? --ewh _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
