Of course, it would be possible (albeit far from optimal, IMHO).
Moreover, this was indeed the solution WICC suggested to me quite a
while ago, and I accepted it (although, again, I believe that such a
complication was completely unnecessary). However, on Thursday, I was
told that the new decision is to block the SMTP traffic to plasma-gate
completely.
I was told that nobody wants to shut down anything. I will check this.
So there is a striking difference between what I was told and your
information. Did you get it after the last Thursday or before?
got the mail on Sunday 5.10.2003.
While we're at that, I'd like to ask you about one favor. Apparently, you managed to establish a _technical_ contact with the Information Security people - something which I've miserably failed for a very long time. So can you please ask them what was the reason to ban [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses in the first place?
I will try to find out but as i understand it, the descision to convert all mail addresses to @wezman.ac.il was
taken close to 3 years a go and @plasma-gate was given an exception back then with a notice to migrate.
Your calculations are correct but lack the "Angry Customer Call" (ACC) value.
ACC enters the equasion in case of "abnormal incoming mail activity" which is very common in the last year.
I can only guess that someone said "We paid lots of money for someone to write this security policy 3 years a go!
We should implement it to the letter!"
IMHO to keep linux-il archive running the address should be changed to @weizmann.ac.il according to the new
security policy.
Regarding other addresses @plasma-gate : the "addresses on published papers" is a great argument and might help
you to regain control over your incoming mail - "This security policy interferes with scientific work!" (this is a good one)
or maybe "Because of the new security policy we'll never finish this warp-drive engine on time!" :-)
If you would migrate all addresses to @weizmann and then start bugging the IT people with every new alias, how
long do you think will take before they will give you @plasma-gate back?
regards Boris Ratner.
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