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5th February 2007 - Link Blog

SMTP Service Extension for Yadis Discovery. Could potentially let you use your e-mail address as an OpenID, although personally I wouldn’t always want to hand my address over to third-party sites.

Posted 5th February 2007 at 9:44 am

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