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Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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)
The phone companies were not impressed by this attack on their numbering system either... Can I take my Demon static IP with me as well /24 routes, you'll only ever get 4 billion of them so it scales honest ;) I can't think of an easy per user divert without rewriting SMTP..... So I think users would be left picking up the tab for this forwarding service, of course they will want a cap on costs... I don't want to be paying per Gigabyte for Korean spam! At least not after the first Gigabyte in a month!!!!!
(b) The users point of view, in which it would be usefull ;pSimilarly 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.
I just meant to suggest an email address from one ISP is not the same as an email address from another, some offer several at one domain (usually unlimited) others offer 4 or 5 special addresses. So whilst many ISPs can do this with a ".forward" or an MX record, they would have to sort it out. *@domain.com to Simon@xxxxxxxxxx would make my personal migration more of a headache than just switching domain names, but then I'm a "power user" -- that is IT speak for doing about as much as everyone else will want to be doing with there computer in 6 months. Of course it would be better if ISPs gave everyone portable domains, then they could take their email with them nice and cleanly - charge or no charge - bit late now though. Ironically Demon could, but don't offer the service AFAIK, as I keep encouraging them to make my Linux box the preferred MTA for the wretched subdomain. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.