Re: [LUG] Email forwarding

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:04:15PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> 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?".....

Simple legislation or "guidelines" as they are called now I had mind do
not have to be World Wide or European wide. Just to say something
sensible to UK ISPs which is quite reasonable to maintain a free market.
Provide forwarding to your clients if they decide to switch ISPs. I do
not see why the "whole Internet" has to be dragged into this!

> 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.

That is a good way of tackling it, but who would run it? And it will
probably too low key for the big ISPs (with something to lose) to agree.

> 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.

I think managing a foward with some good software and good admins is not
a problem.

> 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).

Because ISPs will not allow you to connect to their mail servers, from
other ISPs!

-Kai

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