> > Legally, data controller of the email should be the owner of the
> > domain name
> Does this mean that ISP's are the data controllers of all e-mail accounts
> they hold? That does seem to rather go against what ISP's have been
stating for many years.
Yes, ofcourse ISPs are the data controllers, provided that they are the
owners of the domain name. That's why you have to agree to their *extremely*
strict terms and conditions (or an agreement of some sort) to obtain an
email address from them. And in those agreements they have waivers for
virtually every action you may do with your new email. Hotmail, for
instance, has a 20 page agreement (much longer than our reseller agreement),
which at some point reads ".....Microsoft will not be liable for any loss
that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or
account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held
liable for losses incurred by Microsoft or another party due to someone else
using your account or password......" Stuff like that. I know because I've
been dealing with a lawsuit for a few months now where somebody hijacked a
free email account to then illegaly take over domain names (paid for)
registered by using that free email address.
> Going back to the allocation/deletion of e-mail addresses, the views
> expressed so far do not seem to deny the issue.
I strongly agree that, because of what's been explained so far, once a user
drops an email address, it shall not be allocated to somebody else.
> Ian W
Ekin
Sibilo.co.uk
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