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22 Mar 2010

Oh, really? Email
This morning I got a paper catalog addressed to VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING, NETWORK ABUSE CLEARINGHOUSE, better known as abuse.net, from infoUSA, the giant junk mail database company. Vice President? Wow, must be someone important, but since there's nobody here but me, I guess I'll take a look.

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  posted at: 15:53 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/infousa.html

06 Mar 2010

Are portable e-mail addresses possible? Email
News reports say that the Israeli government is close to passing a law that requires portable e-mail addresses, similar to portable phone numbers. Number portability has been a success, making it much easier to switch from one provider to another, and address portability might ease switching among ISPs. But e-mail is not phone calls. Is it even possible?

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  posted at: 01:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/mailport.html

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