Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

On 2/22/2010 11:22 AM, Mustafa Golam - wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>wrote:
>
>
> > 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.

I don't think I said the following line--if I was demented enough to
have done that, I retract it.

> > IMHO, ISPs would be forged to take Google's policy of Email addresses.
>
> xyz () gmail com for beta-users, like you and me; while xyz () google com for
> employees. But surely it will create technical implication along with many
> others.

And I am talking about places that people that have no connection with g[.*]

The key that I missed, and we have to hope the pols did not is that
question of ownership.

I think you will see a drying up of availability of email--which has
interesting implications in the realm of unique addresses possible, for
example.

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take everything you have."

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