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[I noticed this became increasingly off-topic as I wrote it...but I guess I'll post it anyway] One thing that's a bit unfortunate to me is that domains don't p
by CogitoCogito 7y ago
[I noticed this became increasingly off-topic as I wrote it...but I guess I'll post it anyway]
One thing that's a bit unfortunate to me is that domains don't practically seem to have much "resolution" compared to home addresses. Of course there is a whole hierarchy with countries, states, and even cities, but at end of the day many people like me simply have a domain [firstname][lastname].com. But where does that leave all of the other Firstname Lastnames out there? And then when I actually setup email addresses I can throw in all these different users (which I do...e.g. ml@ for mailing lists and todo@ for a todo dump), but they are all pointing at me in the end. Publicly I basically only have one email address that others use even though i could have *@domain.
I'm honestly not even that clear on exactly what the problem here is. It seems that basically the point is that a domain originally was meant to map to an larger organization probably with an administrator, whereas if you want to use it privately you basically need to treat yourself as that one person organization. Something feels a bit off, but I don't know quite what it is...