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-----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) (b) The users point of view, in which it would be usefull ;p
Similarly 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. ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys http://zozo.org.uk/ Exercise caution in your daily affairs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9JMvy448CrwpTn6YRApU5AJ49Lfk5ZdA4kL5GDJr/0RwziWjh5ACgisVk mPLWgshwrmJpA3ImkBNxcuQ= =N7Bu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.