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Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy () druid net>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:25:42 -0500
[* Is trimming included text a lost art nowadays? *] On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:43:23+0000 Cian Brennan <cian.brennan () redbrick dcu ie> wrote:
Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they can't understand. Email addresses aren't phone numbers.As has been pointed out several times, they can easily be pretty close. Simply
Sure, they are sort of like if you squint. Looked at another way they are kind of like a specific name at a street address. On the other hand, what email addresses are exactly like is email addresses. Metaphors are for illustrating something we already know, not for proving something we don't. Metaphors are like... Umm...
force them to send using the outgoing server of their new ISP, but allow them
As soon as I see the word "force" I know I'm not going to like what follows. Why force them to use a specific server at all? My clients use my outgoing server no matter who they connect to. I think what you meant was that the old ISP should NOT be forced to continue supplying the outgoing service. That would make sense and requires no law.
to still access their mailbox (which is really the only important bit the ISP hosts) over pop/imap/whatever. It's not free, but given that the average ISP seems to give you only a few MB or space, it's hardly going to break the bank.
If someone wants to maintain their old account for a while then what's stopping them? Cost? That's no excuse for moving the cost to the old supplier. If your online identity is important to you then pay the associated costs either with your own domain or by maintaining old accounts. My point is that everything necessary to solve the nominal problem is already in place. We don't need more laws. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy () druid net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
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- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee, (continued)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Tony Finch (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Larry Sheldon (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee John Levine (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Larry Sheldon (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Dave CROCKER (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee gordon b slater (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Steven Bellovin (Feb 22)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Cian Brennan (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Larry Sheldon (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Cian Brennan (Feb 23)
- Kill this thread: Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee John Sage (Feb 23)
- Re: Kill this thread: Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Larry Sheldon (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Larry Sheldon (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee N. Yaakov Ziskind (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Scott Brim (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Dave CROCKER (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Owen DeLong (Feb 23)
- Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee Shane Ronan (Feb 23)