darien.family
This is the private correspondence domain of the Reed family of Darien, Connecticut. It is not a business, a store, or a mailing list. It is the address the household uses for the ordinary back-and-forth of family life — school, doctors, the town, coaches, contractors, and the handful of people we trade plans with week to week.
If you received mail from @darien.family
It came from a member of this household — or from an assistant writing on their behalf, always plainly disclosed in the message. Every message is one-to-one, written to you about something already underway between us. We do not send bulk mail, newsletters, marketing, or cold outreach of any kind from this domain, ever.
How to know it is genuine
Every message from this domain is cryptographically signed. The headers
carry a valid DKIM signature for darien.family, the
sending server is authorized by our SPF record, and the domain
publishes a DMARC policy — the three checks a modern mail
provider runs automatically to confirm a message really came from where it
says. If a note claims to be from us but fails those checks, it is not from
this household.
Most mail apps will show this for you: open the message, choose
“show original” or “view headers,” and look for
dkim=pass and dmarc=pass against
darien.family.
The assistant
Some of our correspondence is handled by a private assistant that works for this family and no one else. It helps with the parts of running a household that are mostly scheduling and follow-up — proposing times, filling in forms, keeping a thread moving — and it signs its messages as what it is. Nothing it writes goes out without a person in the family approving it, and the information it touches stays inside this household. It is never used for advertising, and it is never sold or shared. The full privacy policy spells this out.
Reaching us
The best way to reach the family is simply to reply to whatever thread you are already on, or to write [email protected]. A real person reads it.
— the Reed family