On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, at 13:58, John Levine wrote: > In article <20170326220333.3c517c48@quill> you write: > >If I want to be able to give people information for being able to > >contact me via the Internet, so that I can have a reasonable expectation > >of being able to make sure that this will still work in 20 years > >(provided I am then still alive and healthy enough to be able to use > >computers), how would I do that without a second level domain of my own? > > I know a certain number of people with e-mail addresses that haven't > changed in 20 years, not at domains they own. It's probably more > than the number I know with 20 year old vanity domains, and I know > a lot of vain old nerds.
20 is relatively extreme at this stage of the internet, largely due to the fact that 20 years ago internet access wasn't as ubiquitous and the situation has changed considerably. I lost my email address(es) of that day because the provider(s) no longer exist (or in one case, ceased selling email addresses outside of other services, so the price went from $19/year to several hundred a year), after which point I bought a domain and kept it since 2000. It's not my primary address, but I can still be reached there just the same and this is important to me. Not being a target of criminals is also important to me, and insisting I publish a valid street address, phone number and email address increases my exposure to criminals. > But I can't help noticing that people keep trying to change the topic. > Once again, nobody* has a problem with privacy protection for the > small minority of domains registered by natural persons. The problem > is that the pro-crime crowd keep demanding that all the rest be > anonymous or effectively anonymous, too. Suggesting people who are interested in privacy are pro-crime is a bit silly, and I would request that you do not attach derogatory labels just because someone else happens to have a different opinion than you, unless I am welcome to make up labels for you? _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
