On 2/22/2010 11:28 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2010-02-22, at 10:09, Gadi Evron 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. > > Just out of interest, are those ISP-tied e-mail addresses always run > by the ISP, or are they occasionally outsourced in the manner of > Rogers' (Canada) or BT's (UK) respective deals with Yahoo! (US)? > > It'd be an interesting twist if contracts between e-mail providers > outside Israel and ISPs inside suddenly made this requirement for > e-mail address portability leak beyond Israel's borders.
I have been wondering about that too--the Internet may be the only artifact of human existence that is generally border insensitive (with exceptions we don't need to enumerate). I note that quite a few country TLDs are hosted in other countries. Whose laws prevail? -- "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
