On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:30:53AM -0600, Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 2/22/2010 10:24 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: > > I dare say. > > I own example. I fire George for a long list of foul deeds. He goes to > work for another company and writes email from geo...@example.com that > injures my reputation. > > Not a good plan at all. > > > 1) Large and increasing quantity of email will be forwarded between > > Israeli ISPs, loading their networks with traffic that could have been > > avoided. > > Believe it or not, some people have email addresses that are not > intrinsically "ISP" addresses. > > > 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? > > Again, it might all be within one ISP--and is still irrelevant. > Actually, this is really simple to fix. Don't provide smtp service, only pop/imap. Then they never need to contact you. At least one Irish ISP already does something similar for ex-subscribers.
> > 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). > > Governments requiring people to do things that are not good ideas often > have unexpected (even if obvious) consequences. > > My reaction, if I were in a position to do so, would be to stop > providing email addresses. > > > Unfortunately the links cited are in Hebrew so I'm only going on Gadi's > > report here. > > Why is that relevant? > > -- > "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to > take everything you have." > > Remember: The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals. > > Requiescas in pace o email > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio > Eppure si rinfresca > > ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs > http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml > > > -- --