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Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (N. Yaakov Ziskind)
Tue Feb 23 11:37:45 2010

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:34:39 -0500
From: "N. Yaakov Ziskind" <awacs@ziskind.us>
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B840213.2090306@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: awacs@ziskind.us
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Larry Sheldon wrote (on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:28:03AM -0600):
> On 2/23/2010 4:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> 
> > Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they
> > can't understand.  Email addresses aren't phone numbers.
> 
> It occurs to me that maybe there is a reason why political conservatives
> get so excited about "minor, trivial" erosions of sanity; why they worry
> about "where this might lead"....
> 
> It's been mentioned--why not "portable" street addresses.  Fire
> departments will just have to adapt.

If you want an example of just what would result, take a trip to Tokyo,
where house numbers were assigned in the order that building permits
were issued, and you need *extremely* detailed directions.

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