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Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Sep 4 04:52:47 2013

Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:50:20 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CACnPsNUBSLFbAn9eCDhhnZnetAy72MFuK7KRRPf1+xiTQZ_ueg@mail.gmail.com>
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Scott Howard wrote:

> The idea of this header is that it will allow a sender to control that a

Sender has no control and asks a receiver perform some control,
which may be ignored by the receiver.

> 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.

It does not work as protection against transferred domain.

> Facebook at least is already sending this header on all emails.

Someone might want people keep using mail services monitored by
USG.

						Masataka Ohta



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