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OpenID pre-announcement

Authored by: LWC on Tuesday, June 05 2007 @ 01:31 pm EDT

That's a spam site (I suggest some admin deletes it). I used http://bugmenot.myopenid.com (a server which Dirk recommended and it's also the first recommendation in the the list in openid.net).

jmatt offered in his site to reject any user that has the ability to not give out their e-mail address to their server. However, the reality is that even the #1 recommended server, Myopenid, does not require an e-mail address (they actually say it's only needed if you want to receive server notifications. How many people do you think will say "Hooray! Notifications!" and give out their addresses?). This means Geeklog has to accept the fact that this server and probably other mainstream servers do not require an e-mail address.

Therefore, rejecting makes no sense (or you'll just boycott every second server). Somehow Geeklog must face remote users without an e-mail adderss. How, I do not know. Asking them for a local address would hurt the whole purpose, so I hope there's another way out.

You should also know remote users without an e-mail address can't change their Geeklog settings. But most imporantly, Geeklog DOES let other users send them e-mail (which is sent to an empty address)!

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