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Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:50:20 +0900

Scott Howard wrote:

The idea of this header is that it will allow a sender to control that a

Sender has no control and asks a receiver perform some control,
which may be ignored by the receiver.

user will only receive an email if that email address was valid before a
specific date, thus at least stopping someone from using a recycled account
to carry out a password reset on another service.

It does not work as protection against transferred domain.

Facebook at least is already sending this header on all emails.

Someone might want people keep using mail services monitored by
USG.

                                                Masataka Ohta



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