diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 7fbd2a6fbd..8492b8be07 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set_time_limit(0);
 
-define ( 'BUILD_ID',               1037   );
+define ( 'BUILD_ID',               1038   );
 define ( 'FRIENDIKA_VERSION',      '2.10.0905' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.1'  );
 
@@ -1378,10 +1378,12 @@ function webfinger($s) {
 		logger('webfinger: lrdd template: ' . $tpl);
 		if(strlen($tpl)) {
 			$pxrd = str_replace('{uri}', urlencode('acct:'.$s), $tpl);
+			logger('webfinger: pxrd: ' . $pxrd);
 			$links = fetch_xrd_links($pxrd);
 			if(! count($links)) {
 				// try with double slashes
 				$pxrd = str_replace('{uri}', urlencode('acct://'.$s), $tpl);
+				logger('webfinger: pxrd: ' . $pxrd);
 				$links = fetch_xrd_links($pxrd);
 			}
 			return $links;
@@ -1453,6 +1455,7 @@ function fetch_lrdd_template($host) {
 	$tpl = '';
 	$url = 'http://' . $host . '/.well-known/host-meta' ;
 	$links = fetch_xrd_links($url);
+logger('template: ' . print_r($links,true));
 	if(count($links)) {
 		foreach($links as $link)
 			if($link['@attributes']['rel'] && $link['@attributes']['rel'] === 'lrdd')
@@ -1479,15 +1482,30 @@ function fetch_xrd_links($url) {
 	$h = simplexml_load_string($xml);
 	$arr = convert_xml_element_to_array($h);
 
+	$links = array();
+
 	if(isset($arr['xrd']['link'])) {
 		$link = $arr['xrd']['link'];
 		if(! isset($link[0]))
 			$links = array($link);
 		else
 			$links = $link;
-		return $links;
 	}
-	return array();
+	if(isset($arr['xrd']['alias'])) {
+		$alias = $arr['xrd']['alias'];
+		if(! isset($alias[0]))
+			$aliases = array($alias);
+		else
+			$aliases = $alias;
+		foreach($aliases as $alias) {
+			$links[]['@attributes'] = array('rel' => 'alias' , 'href' => $alias);
+		}
+	}
+
+	logger('fetch_xrd_links: ' . print_r($links,true), LOGGER_DATA);
+
+	return $links;
+
 }}
 
 // Convert an ACL array to a storable string
diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index 83e0e4b6f4..34b8079793 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `contact` (
   `issued-id` char(255) NOT NULL,
   `dfrn-id` char(255) NOT NULL,
   `url` char(255) NOT NULL,
-  `lrdd` char(255) NOT NULL,
+  `alias` char(255) NOT NULL,
   `pubkey` text NOT NULL,
   `prvkey` text NOT NULL,
   `request` text NOT NULL,
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index cffd13a01e..b5bdd78335 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -1128,15 +1128,16 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0) {
 			}
 
 			if(($is_reply) && is_array($contact)) {
-	
+
 				// Have we seen it? If not, import it.
 	
 				$item_id = $item->get_id();
-	
+
 				$r = q("SELECT `uid`, `last-child`, `edited` FROM `item` WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 					dbesc($item_id),
 					intval($importer['uid'])
 				);
+
 				// FIXME update content if 'updated' changes
 				if(count($r)) {
 					$allow = $item->get_item_tags( NAMESPACE_DFRN, 'comment-allow');
@@ -1155,6 +1156,7 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0) {
 					}
 					continue;
 				}
+
 				$datarray = get_atom_elements($feed,$item);
 				$force_parent = false;
 				if($contact['network'] === 'stat') {
diff --git a/mod/follow.php b/mod/follow.php
index 8c1dc348fa..eaee7d5aca 100644
--- a/mod/follow.php
+++ b/mod/follow.php
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ function follow_post(&$a) {
 	$email_conversant = false;
 
 	if($url) {
-		$links = lrdd($url);
+		$links = @lrdd($url);
 		if(count($links)) {
 			foreach($links as $link) {
 				if($link['@attributes']['rel'] === NAMESPACE_DFRN)
@@ -30,6 +30,26 @@ function follow_post(&$a) {
 					$profile = $link['@attributes']['href'];
 
 			}
+
+			// Status.Net can have more than one profile URL. We need to match the profile URL
+			// to a contact on incoming messages to prevent spam, and we won't know which one
+			// to match. So in case of two, one of them is stored as an alias. Only store URL's
+			// and not webfinger user@host aliases. If they've got more than two non-email style
+			// aliases, let's hope we're lucky and get one that matches the feed author-uri because 
+			// otherwise we're screwed.
+
+			foreach($links as $link) {
+				if($link['@attributes']['rel'] === 'alias') {
+					if(strpos($link['@attributes']['href'],'@') === false) {
+						if(isset($profile)) {
+							if($link['@attributes']['href'] !== $profile)
+								$alias = $link['@attributes']['href'];
+						}
+						else
+							$profile = $link['@attributes']['href'];
+					}
+				}
+			}
 		}
 		else {
 			if((strpos($orig_url,'@')) && validate_email($orig_url)) {
@@ -165,12 +185,13 @@ function follow_post(&$a) {
 	}
 	else {
 		// create contact record 
-		$r = q("INSERT INTO `contact` ( `uid`, `created`, `url`, `notify`, `poll`, `name`, `nick`, `photo`, `network`, `rel`, `priority`,
+		$r = q("INSERT INTO `contact` ( `uid`, `created`, `url`, `alias`, `notify`, `poll`, `name`, `nick`, `photo`, `network`, `rel`, `priority`,
 			`blocked`, `readonly`, `pending` )
-			VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d, 0, 0, 0 ) ",
+			VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d, 0, 0, 0 ) ",
 			intval(local_user()),
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			dbesc($profile),
+			dbesc($alias),
 			dbesc($notify),
 			dbesc($poll),
 			dbesc($vcard['fn']),
diff --git a/mod/item.php b/mod/item.php
index 2264ea5b9f..737fe83419 100644
--- a/mod/item.php
+++ b/mod/item.php
@@ -246,18 +246,20 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 						);
 					}
 					if(count($r)) {
-						if($r[0]['network'] === 'stat')
-							$stat = true;
 						$profile = $r[0]['url'];
-						$newname = $r[0]['name'];
+						if($r[0]['network'] === 'stat') {
+							$newname = $r[0]['nick'];
+							$stat = true;
+						}
+						else
+							$newname = $r[0]['name'];
 						if(strlen($inform))
 							$inform .= ',';
 						$inform .= 'cid:' . $r[0]['id'];
 					}
 				}
 				if($profile) {
-					if(! $stat)
-						$body = str_replace('@' . $name, '@' . '[url=' . $profile . ']' . $newname	. '[/url]', $body);
+					$body = str_replace('@' . $name, '@' . '[url=' . $profile . ']' . $newname	. '[/url]', $body);
 					$profile = str_replace(',','%2c',$profile);
 					if(strlen($str_tags))
 						$str_tags .= ',';
diff --git a/mod/salmon.php b/mod/salmon.php
index 8c7d921c86..885ba470c8 100644
--- a/mod/salmon.php
+++ b/mod/salmon.php
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ function salmon_post(&$a) {
 	*
 	*/
 
-	$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `network` = 'stat' AND ( `url` = '%s' OR `lrdd` = '%s') 
+	$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `network` = 'stat' AND ( `url` = '%s' OR `alias` = '%s') 
 		AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 		dbesc($author_link),
 		dbesc($author_link),
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index e51e8ac33e..84eaebe185 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -363,3 +363,10 @@ function update_1036() {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+function update_1037() {
+
+	q("ALTER TABLE `contact` CHANGE `lrdd` `alias` CHAR( 255 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL ");
+
+}
+