[178322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Postmaster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Thu Feb 26 07:55:00 2015
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From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 04:52:58 -0800
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On Feb 25, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian =
<ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> You think every accountant, realtor, coffee shop etc uses their own =
domain?
No.
But they should not, and in many cases *cannot*, rely on aol or yahoo =
addresses.
It would suck for them to have to change all their contact information, =
business cards,
and so on - but a) they chose their email provider unwisely and that's =
the cost of
relying on an inappropriate vendor and b) they don't really need to - =
inbound mail to
those addresses is mostly fine, so they just need to get a second email =
address
and gradually migrate their outbound usage to that.
Because the root cause of this issue is a long series of security =
mistakes by those
providers, allowing 3rd parties to have access to user's (supposedly =
private) account
information, the issue is specific to those providers, and there's no =
strong argument that
other email providers are likely to make the same business choices.
Cheers,
Steve
