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Neil Williams wrote:
It is frankly anti-competitive, is it not? Should there not be legislation to protect consumers from this behaviour?Should, but this is the internet - it's not covered specifically by ANY legislation, it's a hotch-potch of laws laid down when only paper documents existed.
Hmm, it is a restriction on competition in that it is difficult to move account. Although a lot of people leave email addresses behind in order to lose the SPAM....
Well, I thought so. And I emailed oftel. And I think I got a stupid reponse really.Not that bad, it really isn't part of Oftel's remit. It's not really part of any watchdog's remit
I thought OFTEL was being replaced by a body with a more general remit. Anyway a lot of the Internet community aren't keen on regulation, not least as governments tend to pass a law and think they are done, when the net is a bit bigger than any one government. Just look how much trouble the world governments are having agreeing on how to deal with global warming (I would say prevent, but it is a bit late for that), then ask "would you want these people to regulate the Internet?"..... Probably better to look at ISP bodies and groups like the consumer association, a little pressure (mostly you only want UK ISPs signed up initially I guess) might get them to agree a scheme, like the banks did. I mean not agreeing is tantamount to admitting your service is lousy. Similarly what constitutes an email address is probably best left to ISPs, I mean "wretched.demon.co.uk" is much like "joe.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx", in I'd want to take all mail for the domain with me when I go - only an MX record for Demon, but the receiving ISP might need to do some work to take a whole domain name. Don't see why you can't revive and old email address using fetchmail, not sure if spam assassin can be applied that way without fiddling, but I filter most of my spam with a handful of simple rules, which could be done with all sorts of tools (procmail if your brave). Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.