Re:Show HN: Mailto-links are dead. Long live mailto.id
by carmen_sandiego on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:03PM
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I haven't actually worried about putting my email on the web for years now. Google's spam filter is good enough, I think.
It might be nice to have an anonymous ID that can forward to a (possibly changing) underlying address. But I'm not sure that's the presented use case.
I wonder why real-life mail doesn't do this. Identifiers mapping to whatever your current address is. PO Boxes exist, I guess, but it's not quite the same.
It might be nice to have an anonymous ID that can forward to a (possibly changing) underlying address. But I'm not sure that's the presented use case.
I wonder why real-life mail doesn't do this. Identifiers mapping to whatever your current address is. PO Boxes exist, I guess, but it's not quite the same.
I've had the same exact thought for a while. "DNS for physical addresses" would be so useful for both privacy and convenience.