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Re: [LUG] Email forwarding



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On Thursday 04 July 2002 10:53 pm, Kai Hendry wrote:

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.

ther is the other side to thi problem;

i see 2 sides to this:

(a) as i director of an ISP: do i want to be paying for bandwidth and server 
load when they have left us? when you change phone providers and move your 
phone number, do you expect your old telco to route the call via their 
network and pick up the charges for them? (assuming just forwarding a single 
address)

(b) The users point of view, in which it would be usefull ;p

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.

most isps support hosting and email accounts of other domains already - if 
they don't then it's your fault for going with them in the first place ;)

but the old isp could just forward *@domain.com to your new email address.

~ Theo

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