[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Tue Oct 14 22:33:58 UTC 2008


I did not mean that resolution would be performed via SMTP. I am just  
talking e-mail identifier, not SMTP protocol.

On Oct 14, 2008, at 15:05 , SitG Admin wrote:

>> It could be a as simple as resolving an e-mail address to an XRDS  
>> file, which contains a "home page" service entry.
>
> Johannes - who is in charge of (and able to track) this resolution?  
> Currently, if some spammer sends me E-mail, I can *choose* not just  
> what information to respond with but also *whether* to respond! If  
> the E-mail server were set up to automatically respond to "OpenID  
> requests" with various information, it wouldn't require my  
> involvement *but* I would still have some control over the process  
> *and* these requests could be tracked.
>
> -Shade




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