Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

Mon Feb 22 17:02:22 UTC 2010

I have an idea.  Everyone just get a gmail (or otherwise "neutral" account) like me.com or gmail.com or yahoo.com and be done with it.

J

On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> A thing being missed here is this:
> 
> A telephone number does not have an obvious affinity with personal
> intellectual-property-like information.  (402 332-XXXX is not obviously
> a Northwest Bell-USWest-Quest telephone number, but at least two of them
> are now served by Cox.  A person using a 917 NNX-XXXX number in has now
> turned useful information into noise, but that is not quite the same thing.)
> 
> An email address that ends in example.com irrevocably ties the address
> user to the company Example and may in fact be affirmatively harmful
> beyond the technical difficulty of implementation.
> 
> -- 
> "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to
> take everything you have."
> 
> Remember:  The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.
> 
> Requiescas in pace o email
> Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
> Eppure si rinfresca
> 
> ICBM Targeting Information:  http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs
> http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
> 	
> 

--
Joel Esler
http://blog.joelesler.net