(keitai-l) Re: Phone Number Transmission when conneting with iMode

So when you change your email address it doesn't just create an alias to the
email=phonenumber? Do you know if this is discussed somewhere officially? 

I've only read the "user" documentation, and that only in English, so I've
just guessed from the way it seemed to work that the phone number as your
email always worked, but also a new name could be registered. But I never
tried it.

Steve

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Andrea Hoffmann [mailto:ah@anima.de] 
Sent:	Monday, August 28, 2000 6:18 PM
To:	keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject:	(keitai-l) Re: Phone Number Transmission when conneting with
iMode

Hi,

> From what I understand, official sites have access to full 
> header info, including the user telephone #. This is usually 
> also their email.  

ASAIK this is not true for i-mode (that official sites get the 
full header including the user's phone number), but even if it 
_would_ be true, is the phone number not automatically also the 
user's email address. 

Fact is that most people change their default email=phonenumber 
i-mode address (e.g. 09012345678@docomo.ne.jp) to something like 
***suzuki@docomo.ne.jp. 

But as soon as you change your mail address like that, the old 
one (with the phone number) doesn't work anymore. which means 
that you can't rely on the phone number information to get the 
user's email address. 

> However, unofficial sites dont have this, so the best you can 
> do is have the form contain @docomo.ne.jp already.

that is probably the best way for all i-mode sites right now and 
its also what you see on most i-mode sites.

Cheers,
Andrea
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