How It's Used A SOAP or XML-RPC interface which allows a user or web based application to send a user approved subset of personal data when an application asks for it. This could easily be expanded upon to provide better password tracking and eventually automated contact notification. They dragging that link URL over to their Drizzle app on the desktop, at which point the Drizzle enabled personal information manager queries the site to find out what information it's requesting, then pops up a confirmation box allowing the user to choose what information to send for each of the fields. Paranoid users could run a Drizzle client on their own machines, although it's easy to see how a web client app could be written for this too. Some standard for how the email verification message is formatted so that it can be automatically filtered and responded to.
Suggestions are very appreciated.
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