[tech] A '.well-known/' path for contact information?

[Jon]

I've noticed a lot chatter recently about ways to allow comments on
posts. Sometimes the objective is to drop a message to the author,
sometimes to allow a public discussion.

I not personally interested in public comments, but I am very interested
making it easier for authors to be reached.

I've been wondering whether adopting a /.well-known/contact.txt
convention for sharing contact details. This idea has been blatantly
stolen from security.txt?. This will allow for things like:

- automated back-link notifications for authoring tools.
- with client support, users to respond to a page from within the
  client.
- and emails addresses could be harvested en mass for nefarious
  purposes.

A solution like this isn't obviously workable for public discussions,
but a commenting system could be cobbled together to ingest messages
received via SMTP. It may require additional conventions like a header
(or subject line) that hints to which post being discussed. It may also
require a way to signal that anything sent to the address will be
public.

To me, something like this feels more in spirit of Gemini, but really
who am I to say. :)

? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security.txt

-- 
Jon