On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, James Jones wrote: > >> Why does this seem like a really bad idea? > > While I think the principal is noble there are operational problems: > > 1) Large and increasing quantity of email will be forwarded between Israeli > ISPs, loading their networks with traffic that could have been avoided. > > 2) Every time someone changes ISP and wants to continue using this address > they will need to notify their original ISP, who they may not have had a > business relationship with for many years. This will be a significant > operational challenge I expect. How do you confirm the person notifying you > is the real owner of the address, for example? > > IMHO it would have been better to require the ISPs to forward the email for a > reasonable period of time (say 3 months) to allow the user to make relevant > notifications (or just stop using an ISP bound email address). > > Unfortunately the links cited are in Hebrew so I'm only going on Gadi's > report here. >
Bring back the MB or MR DNS records? (Only half a smiley.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb