[165412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Tue Sep 3 23:57:31 2013
In-Reply-To: <12002734.6139.1378264199253.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:57:16 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
To their (partial) credit they are also supporting a new email header :
Require-Recipient-Valid-Since:
via draft-ietf-appsawg-rrvs-header-field
The idea of this header is that it will allow a sender to control that a
user will only receive an email if that email address was valid before a
specific date, thus at least stopping someone from using a recycled account
to carry out a password reset on another service.
Facebook at least is already sending this header on all emails.
Overall this is nothing new - Hotmail has been doing the same thing for
years.
Scott
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Whackiness, predictably, ensues:
>
> https://medium.com/editors-picks/46b47d95b957
>
> You can do the math how this might affect you, your services, and your
> users,
> if you have those.
>
> Will people *ever* start listening when we tell them how Bad an Idea
> something is? The RISKS are endless...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink
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