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Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

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From: Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net>

Subject: Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:54:45 -0400

Message-ID: <875ynfm88a.fsf@cassilda.carcosa.net>

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Vasco Costa <vasco.costa@invalid.invalid> writes:

I like this idea very much too. I often get frustrated by not finding
any contact information. Has there been any attempt at choosing a
standard location/name for that file?

I don't know of any discussions in this direction.

Earlier this afternoon, I was thinking of a file at

/.well-known/contacts that would consist of lines like:

<PATH><WHITESPACE><EMAIL>

Where PATH is a path segment, below which the contact in this line

applies, unless there is a more specific path match. So:

/ admin@my.site

/~bob "Bob" <bob@my.site>

/~alice alice@my.site

/~alice/cat "Alice's Cat" <alices_cat@my.site>

This would be easily machine parsable, and you could add a "contact"

button in the client that opens an email compose program for any given

page.

But I also remembered "humans.txt", which is more freeform and perhaps

more humane.

Humans.txt

--

Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,

jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,

| but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”

| ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow

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Re: Geminisphere via backlinks (by Vasco Costa <vasco.costa@invalid.invalid> on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:03:51 -0000 (UTC))

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