On October 31, 2005 at 08:07, Michael Thomas wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't see what the problem is here. A "user" of
example.com is violating example.com's stated policy. This
sounds exactly like the case that example.com wants to
limit. Is it your position that owners of domains have no
say so about the ToS and that "users" (where "user" =
anybody who wants to assert they are a user, miscreants
and all as is the case today) trump all other considerations?
It is a balance. Technically, domain owners can do whatever they want,
but it would negligent of us to ignore what any new protocol will do
to existing uses of email, especially from the end-user's perspective.
These impacts can be technical, social, political, and/or even legal
in nature.
Right now, for many users, there is an expectation they can use there
email address as they see fit. Of course, this is not unbound since
for some addresses business policies (justifiably) take precedence.
This is no different than existing policies of an employee using
their company identity for non-company related business.
But for cases like email service providers, the "rules" are different.
We are talking about customers not employees. I do not recall seeing
any terms in my ToS for my ISP stating restrictions on how I can use
my email address or that I cannot use alternate originating email
addresses in mail I send out through there SMTP servers (which I
currently do all the time).
Does Gmail or Yahoo have a ToS that prevents me from using my
Gmail or Yahoo address in emails I send out from other domains?
--ewh
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