Angus McIntyre wrote:
On Sat, March 24, 2007 6:53 pm, John wrote:
I just thought of a possible application for hcard:
A Mozilla plugin would allow you to enter a URL for a person instead of
full details in the addressboox. Then Thunderbird would check with that
webpage regularly and see if their e-mail address has changed to update
its addressbook.
One problem here is that many people may be unwilling to publish their
email addresses on a web page, because of the certainty that the address
will be picked up by spammers. This may limit the number of cases where
this would be useful.
I can't see that as a problem to not go ahead. I receive over 300 spam a
day and am doing okay. Most people probably don't have the technology
required to deal with that level of spam, but many do - they can place
their hcards on their website in any form, and everyone will benefit
from that - both the website owners, and the people who communicate with
them.
And the fact that employing anti-spam technology allows you to place
your hcard in the open, will entice more people to employ anti-spam
measures.
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