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		bct on May 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenID: A Contrarian View Or more in the spirit of decentralization, http://pavatar.com/

justindz on May 23, 2008 [–]

I'm planning to switch from local avatars to something else. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

Regarding OpenID, all the services I've tested with so far don't even return email, let alone anything else. Is this a heavily under-used aspect of the protocol on the provider side?

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