On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:24:54PM +0000, 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. > Same thing applies to mobile companies. Realistically, this isn't going to be a particularly massive amount of traffic.
> 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? > This bit is slightly more difficult. All the same, you can easily figure out a password system for talking to support (with a login password, and a support password, say. Not the most secure thing possible, but in practise as good as any ISPs mail system's is likely to be.) > 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). > Changing an email address takes far longer than 3 months, ime. I still get the odd mail to one I stopped using 3-4 years ago. > Unfortunately the links cited are in Hebrew so I'm only going on Gadi's > report here. > > Cheers, > > Rob > > -- > Email: rob...@timetraveller.org > IRC: Solver > Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com > I tried to change the world but they had a no-return policy > > -- --