Some of you will remember that just before Christmas Aunty wrote about the Ellsworth family, whose son was slain in combat in Iraq, and who were subsequently trying to get Yahoo to let them have access to their son’s email account. Yahoo had staunchly refused, citing their privacly policy.

Well, it’s happened again, to another family, the Linn family of Midlothian, Virginia family, who have found themselves pitted against Reno-based Internet service provider Mailbank.com.

It seems that the Linn’s son Karl, who was stationed in Iraq, would send out an email update, and update his website, several times a week. His parents keenly looked forward to these updates - their only connection to a son a half-a-world away, and always in danger’s way. So much so that in fact one of the first things they did as they came out of the shock of hearing of their son’s death was to ask ISP Mailbank to please give them access to the last writings of their son.

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