Re: [art] New Version Notification for draft-httpemaildevphone-00.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>How do you propose convincing the vendors to hand out an e-mail account
>with every phone?  If the customers really wanted it, the vendors would
>probably have noticed it already.

Here in the US they do that and have done so for a long time.  For
example, if you have a Verizon number 1234567890, your email address
is [e-mail] or [e-mail] if you want to attach
a picture.

In my experience those addresses are little used other than to send
notifications from companies too cheap to get a real SMS gateway.

There are plenty of widely used free webmail services, all of which
offer both web access and apps for all popular phones.  I have trouble
imagining why I would want an address tied to my MAC or phone number
that would change every time I got a new phone.

R's,
John