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> If you had an Internet Driver's License, it would be your email address. You always have that with you at all times.

You take a test to get an email address, have to wait until 16 for the privilege and it can be almost arbitrarily revoked?




Well, yes. You have to prove you're not a robot by passing a CAPTCHA test, many places (including Gmail) "require" you to be over 13, and from Google's TOS:

13.3 Google may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if:

So I think the metaphor fits quite nicely, don't you?


> So I think the metaphor fits quite nicely, don't you?

No, I can setup my own MTA, or get a cheap account at a random host which will provide me an MTA, and there are a billion services out there to get email addresses.




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