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Home 21 Apr 2010 More on portable email addresses Email Last month a bill in the Israeli Knesset would have required ISPs to provide portable e-mail addresses, analogous to portable phone numbers that one can take from one phone company to the other. As I noted at the time, e-mail works differently from telephone calls, and portability would be difficult, expensive, and unreliable. So I was wondering, idly, if we really wanted to provide portable e-mail addresses, how hard would it be? See more ... posted at: 00:40 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/moreport.trackback 14 Apr 2010 Another spam case lost in Washington, or Gordon strikes again Email Bennett Haselton, who runs the Peacefire anti-censorship site, is one of the more successful anti-spam litigants. He says he's filed about 140 suits, mostly in small claims court, and has won the majority of the suits that got far enough to be decided on the merits. But last month, in Federal court in Seattle, he lost a suit against Quicken Loans that he should have won, partly because of his own mistakes, but largely because of the pernicious effect of Gordon vs. Virtumundo. See more ... posted at: 01:14 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/peacespam.trackback

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