The Warsaw Business Journal, citing a report in Puls Biznesu, says that "Onet.pl, Interia.pl and Gazeta.pl have sent an open letter to [the Polish parliament's] Speakers in protest against changes to the telecommunications law which...will force people to show their ID card to open an e-mail address. No other country has such strict formal requirements. If implemented it will probably mean that Internet users would resign from using Polish portals and move their e-mail addresses abroad."
UPDATE: According to EDRI-gram number 2.11 (2 June 2004), in response to the 3 portals' letter, "the government issued an official statement that promised that the proposal would be re-worded, if the objection was indeed correct. The bill is currently being examined by parliament's infrastructure committee and has not yet been scheduled for a second reading... [See the official statement of the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure (in Polish, 31.05.2004).]