On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Gadi Evron <g...@linuxbox.org> wrote:
> The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's > committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation > process of the Israeli parliament. > > While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of > their ISP's email service. > > According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a different ISP > the email address will optionally be his to take along, "just like" mobile > providers do today with phone numbers. > > This new legislation makes little technological sense, and will certainly > be a mess to handle operationally as well as beurocratically, but it > certainly is interesting, and at least the notion is beautiful. > > The proposed bill can be found here [Doc, Hebrew]: > http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/computers/22022010/mail.doc > > Linked to from this ynet (leading Israeli news site) story, here: > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3852744,00.html > > I will update this as things evolve on my blog, here: > http://gadievron.blogspot.com/ > > Gadi. > > Why does this seem like a really bad idea? -james
