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soraminazuki 4 days ago

That's incredibly dishonest reasoning. Are you seriously telling me that unless people have a solution for fixing DNS, commercial email should be free to hand out used email addresses? Seriously?

opello 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't it more like fixing whois than fixing DNS? It's the name registration part while "fixing DNS" seems like it carries a lot of additional baggage that doesn't map to the "service username" space.

akoboldfrying 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure.

Now that you've said what you wanted to say about how dishonest the question is, would you like to either answer it or explain why the analogy fails to hold?

soraminazuki 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And now shadowbanned accounts are hurling insults [1]? Come on.

If it wasn't clear enough when you made your fallacious argument, and even after I called it out twice, issues with domain name registration has no bearing on the choice of commercial email providers handing out previously used addresses to anyone who asks. They can stop doing that today without having to break the internet for an unrelated issue or go through internet standards committees to do so.

In addition, email addresses handed out by commercial email providers are highly personal as opposed to your typical domain names. End users, who are oblivious to how any of this works, risk being victims of identity theft by having their previous address taken. Scammers can impersonate as grandchildren and steal from the elderly. They can take over online accounts that's tied to that email address. There are grave consequences to these kind of decisions.

This is obvious stuff to anyone who has an idea of what a domain name is. But I understand, you're "just asking questions."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998990

soraminazuki 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you the type of person who thinks it's okay to dump garbage on your neighbor's lawn because governments haven't been successful at stopping pollution? Because that's the extract same rhetoric you're using.

akoboldfrying 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's OK that you don't want to answer the question.

soraminazuki 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's okay that you can't comprehend a straightforward answer.

pixxel 3 days ago | parent [-]

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