Semantic Email Addressing: The Semantic Web Killer App?

Email addresses, like telephone numbers, are opaque identifiers. They´re often hard to remember, and, worse still, they change from time to time. Semantic email addressing (SEA) lets users send email to a semantically specified group of recipients. It provides all of the functionality of static email mailing lists, but because users can maintain their own profiles, they don´t need to subscribe, unsubscribe, or change email addresses. Because of its targeted nature, SEA could help combat unintentional spam and preserve the privacy of email addresses and eve.n individual identities.