[OpenID] Fwd: Retreiving the persona's current email

[SitG Admin]

A user posted on Pibb a couple of days ago about having been unable 
to post to the OpenID.net mailing lists, and included their message, 
requesting a response. Here's the contact information and message; I 
don't endorse the message myself, indeed I disagree with the first 
part and I'm not clear on what the rest is about.

-Shade



Adisa Nicholson
afaninthehouse at gmail.com
http://www.tynamite.uk.to

I posted this message to the OpenID.net mailing lists on the 30th of 
April and never got it approved or rejected. The mailing lists really 
suck as it should be a forum such as bbPress or phpBB. Here's the 
message I posted I would like a reponse to. /\/\/\/\/\ I run a 
website that allows webmasters to track their uptime and display that 
image on their website as an emblem of how great their host is. It's 
used mostly by webhosts and placed on the homepage. The website 
emails an account when that account's assigned webpage has downtime. 
What if a guy called John Smith's webhost has downtime and I email 
him. How do i get his email? The only way I can get persona 
information via the janrain php openid library is via the user 
authenticating themself. But John Smith cannot authenticate himself 
because he's away from the computer. I've thought of everytime a user 
logs in the database will be updated with the most recent email. But 
what if John Smith changes his email which is assigned to his persona 
and does not log into my website. How do I contact John Smith? John 
Smith wants me to contact him as he's allowed my site to access his 
persona forever. MyOpenID supports personas. I suggest that this 
problem gets solved real quick. It's all right now, but if you want 
OpenID to have a future, this feature has to be implemented. Please 
reply back.