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    It's still active and I'm reading answers as they come in. Unfortunately, we have limited bandwidth for this particular project right at the moment. I really like this particular idea. The primary concern raised internally was that [email protected] is the format of our employee email addresses, which might be confusing or deceptive. I had not thought about tying the email to particular sites, but that has promise. It would also be particularly straightforward to implement as a redirect. (Though I do recall some technical concerns. Hmmmm...) Commented Oct 19, 2015 at 21:35
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    @JonEricson two alternative ideas. (1) I know that many colleges give alumni email addresses that end in @alumni.harvard.edu, maybe Stack Exchange could use something like @contributor.stackexchange.com? Or, since Stack Exchange has been renamed to Stack Overflow, maybe the employee emails should end in @stackoverflow.com while users could get the @stackexchange.com email addresses.
    – user160606
    Commented Oct 20, 2015 at 20:26
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    No. You don't want unknown people to have an SE.com mail, do you? Also, you can have a zillion users with the same display name, and also you can change your display name at any time.
    – yo'
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 14:52
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    @yo' they wouldn't be "unknown people", they would be people who are moderators or who have 30K reputation.
    – user160606
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 17:40
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    @Hamlet They are unknown in the sense that they can be whoever they wish and communicate with anybody using their stackexchange mail. You wouldn't expect, when communicating with someone whose address is [email protected] that he's not a staff and StackOverflow. At least I would not. Whenever I communicate with someone with that address, I know it's an SE staff member; I don't have to check each time. I would like this to stay true.
    – yo'
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 18:59
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    What about something like, redirect-only with autoreply? So when someone sends a mail to [email protected] etc, it gets redirected to my mail, and the sender of the mail gets a mail saying that the mail was delivered to me and states that I'm not a SE staff member.
    – ave
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 13:19
  • @ardaozkal In other words, give away the user's private email address to anyone who asks?
    – E.P.
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 22:28
  • @E.P. auto redirect != reply with private mail.
    – ave
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 22:35
  • @ardaozkal It was the autoreply that bothered me but I see it now.
    – E.P.
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 22:47
  • @yo' They could use the user IDs, for example. Commented May 24, 2020 at 0:20