Declan McCullagh from CNet has dug up an interesting FCC filing from a DC freelance writer.  Gail Mortenson has requested the FCC to mandate e-mail portability, meaning that if you switched email provider they would be forced to forward any emails to your new email address.  As if email doesn’t sometimes already have trouble getting through clogged relays and spam filters, just imagine if your email was coming through a number of forwarding services, all of them under the control of companies you had told where to shove their email.

Declan does a good job of explaining why this is a ludicrous proposal, worth a read.  It boggles the mind though, how self centered people can be that they would think a company that offers them a free or incredibly cheap service should be beholden to keep giving her service after she leaves them.  I don’t think AOL should be paying her alimony after their email relationship breaks down. 

If she came to GNC she could use one of Todd’s codes to get a great GoDaddy deal on a domain name and email forwarding.