[11eleven]

Interesting concept! This could also be cool for missed connections.

In lieu of the missed connection's email address, you could provide a few specific details about the encounter (choosing from prewritten options):

Time (options provided in 3-hour blocks ie 9am-12pm), name of neighborhood, city, your ethnicity (or some other easy personally identifying feature).

If the other person also goes on the site to submit a missed connection within a few days of yours and fills out the same details, they'll be prompted to answer the detail about your personally identifying feature to receive your message and relay email to respond to.

(Yes this would only work well if the website became widely known as the place to go to for private missed connections.)

Probably a few loopholes with this, just thinking out loud.

[dougk16]

Wow I had thought briefly of the "missed connection" case but never could work out the details. Your post makes me think there could be a way, if there were some standardized version of a "thought" that goes beyond the hashtag. Interesting. Thank you for jogging my brain a bit.