[122926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Kill this thread: Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Sage)
Tue Feb 23 11:55:14 2010
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:54:23 -0800
From: John Sage <jsage@finchhaven.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B84032D.3050207@cox.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 2/23/2010 4:43 AM, Cian Brennan wrote:
>
>> As has been pointed out several times, they can easily be pretty close. Simply
>> force them to send using the outgoing server of their new ISP, but allow them
>> to still access their mailbox (which is really the only important bit the ISP
>> hosts) over pop/imap/whatever. It's not free, but given that the average ISP
>> seems to give you only a few MB or space, it's hardly going to break the bank.
>
> and they get shut down for TOS violations (for extra credit, whose TOS
> will apply?)(for more extra credit, who orders the shutdown?) they take
> their "portable" address somewhere else.
>
> Now what?
>
