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
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