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<body>For a start I would just be happy if i could remember a single open id address and that allows me to choose what email or chat id or whatever i want to use for tha context - without me having to type them all.<BR>
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I imagine a scenario where i have a person connection with person A and a business connection with person B and once i have entered their open id and retrieved the email they wish me to use to contact them I can link that to my open id and the email address i wish to use to send <EM>to</EM> them. This can be remembered and even processed by an aware email client.<BR><BR>
Using Windows Live to send this email i can even see how this could work really well!<BR>
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steven<BR>
<A href="http://livz.org">http://livz.org</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:42:08 -0400<BR>> From: openid@ussjoin.com<BR>> To: guido@sohne.net<BR>> CC: general@openid.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Relationship of OpenID URLs and e-mail addresses<BR>> <BR>> It seems to me like this would be a way both to have email contact with <BR>> people whom you know only by OpenID, and also whitelist-first email; <BR>> your OpenID provider could simply hold all the email, then let through <BR>> those you've previously agreed to talk to-- much like the twitter <BR>> article (<http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2007/04/03/pull-messaging> <BR>> for those of you who didn't see it the first time) spoke about.<BR>> <BR>> I think this would be great, personally.<BR>> <BR>> And yes, I think chat nicknames could go OpenID as well, for the same <BR>> reason. People could find me on an arbitrary service without having to <BR>> care which-- and yet could only *speak* to me with prior permission.<BR>> <BR>> ---Brendan O'Connor<BR>> <BR>> Guido Sohne wrote:<BR>> > On 4/4/07, Hamish Allan <hamish@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> >> On a not entirely unrelated note, has anyone considered the use of<BR>> >> OpenIDs as email addresses?<BR>> >><BR>> >> Imagine a service openidmail.com which offers email addresses based on<BR>> >> OpenIDs. I can immediately set up my mail client to connect to<BR>> >> smtp.openidmail.com and send email with a from: address of<BR>> >> openid.aol.com/me@openidmail.com and a to: address of<BR>> >> you.myopenid.com@openidmail.com. You can receive it by setting up your<BR>> >> mail client to receive mail from imap.openidmail.com. Authentication<BR>> >> can be handled using e.g., session cookies as passwords for TLS.<BR>> >> Spammers would presumably set up their own identity providers, which<BR>> >> could quickly be blacklisted.<BR>> >><BR>> >> Has this already been discussed?<BR>> > <BR>> > How is this a step forward to replicate email but with longer<BR>> > addresses? The user's email is not the same as the user's identity. It<BR>> > is very common, yes, and universal, yes, but it's not the identity, I<BR>> > think. What about chat nicknames? Should they go OpenID too?<BR>> > <BR>> > Maybe I'm missing something ...<BR>> > <BR>> > -- G.<BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > general mailing list<BR>> > general@openid.net<BR>> > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<BR>> > <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> general mailing list<BR>> general@openid.net<BR>> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<BR><BR><br /><hr />Take a break and play crossword puzzles - FREE! <a href='http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_ wlmemailtaglinemarch07' target='_new'>Play Now!</a></body>
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