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LiquidID: OpenID + Email Aliasing = Less Spam, Safer Logins

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Is this a joke?

Its called a "disposable email address" and they have been around since sneakemail.com, which started in 2000, then spamgourmet.com and then a hundred other copycats. So basically they add OpenID to an old idea and you call it an amazing web2.0 innovation?

I think the "difference" is that they don't use disposable addresses per se, but rather multiple semi-permanent forwarding addresses that can be individually disabled as needed due to spam. Oh, and it's all streamlined and integrated with your normal OpenID authentication process.

That's something you can't do with normal disposable accounts.

I'm not seeing the difference. And I'm not finding anywhere where its explained that way. Your description "multiple semi-permanent forwarding addresses that can be individually disabled as needed due to spam" is exactly how disposable email address services work. In fact I know in sneakemail you can set a particular address to bounce, accept and delete, you can turn on greylisting for it, or you can deactivate it, you can even filter keywords on it.

Can't this be done with Gmail and "+" addressing?

Just give sitename the address username+sitename@gmail.com and when they start sending you spam, make a filter on that address.

Except that roughly 90% Of the sites I try to register don't accept the + (including liquidID by the way)

Looks very promising, and it's about what I do currently (using my own domain and a catch-all email address).

Yeah, I've wanted this service, but I want it for my own domain.

I want a Firefox widget that sits in my browser and communicates with something on my server.

When I show up to a site it offers me the option to log on or generate an address, preferably by category. The addresses feed into categorical email address. Say 139sdfjf.myshopping@rudyfink.com all goes to myshopping or preferably, I just designate the generated 139sdfjf@ address to end up in shopping so an internal structure wouldn't be exposed.

In a perfect world this aliasing system would be linked to my spam filters and be website aware so if anything came in on a particular email address it could automatically act to cancel that particular email and map a new one to the account. I'd of course be delighted if a standard protocol for handling these anonymous identity interactions with websites could be developed so the whole process would be transparent.

In an even more perfect world, this system would work transparently with many similar systems that get approved FOAF style.

Identity and informational spam management could become much nicer than it is today.

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