[OpenID] A Case for OpenEmailID

[Santosh Rajan]

SitG Admin wrote:
> 
> I was glad to see you begin including the text of your blog posts in 
> your posts to this list. It's a good sign when someone comes over to 
> a group and deigns to talk to them directly; now, though, you're back 
> to the impression that you have something so important to say, you 
> expect those on this list to switch from E-mail to a browser (ironic, 
> since your posts are mainly about OpenID switching from URL-based 
> authentication to E-mail) so they can participate in its discussion.
> 

Hehe SitG hold it. The reason I stopped posting the fulltext was this. I saw
couple of other people do the same thing and you did not say anything. Also
now my posts are on planet.openid.net. However since you said so I will
start posting the fulltext here again. Sorry.



> Speaking of irony, keeping the sole copy of your post on your blog 
> *so soon after deleting several of your prior posts* seems like an 
> invitation for that incident to repeat itself.
> If you want to recover the earlier post that you were not fortunate 
> enough to have in your mailbox (from posting them to this list), a 
> surface-level drive editor (XVI32 for Windows comes to mind) can 
> search for cache files from most browsers. (Firefox lets me do nice 
> things for my privacy, including, unfortunately for recovery in this 
> case, securely wipe my cache files.) Looking at the HTML source for 
> your directory and a comments section, Blogspot appears to include a 
> full link to the post in both areas - so, if you surround their URL's 
> with the quotation marks used around a link, you should be able to 
> eliminate most false positives. Here are the two to look for:
> http://santrajan.blogspot.com/2009/03/mess-called-openid.html
> It may also be possible to recover drafts of that post by searching 
> the drive surface for text from the excerpts I quoted earlier:
> http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2009-March/008149.html
> Perhaps someone else on this list (who viewed your site) can help. 
> With a publicly archived list such as this one we expect to be able 
> to refer back to earlier posts for context, to see what someone was 
> saying; when you insist on placing your words where they cannot be so 
> conveniently archived, you break those expectations. I urge you to 
> reconsider whether you are going to post your words to the list like 
> everyone else here, or merely notify us that you have spoken and ask 
> us to visit your blog so we can hear you.
> 

Thanks I will remember this next time. Also I learned last time by setting
up my blog post on feedburner I can recover a post within 24 hrs. (Now I
have it set up).




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Santosh Rajan
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