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OpenID pre-announcement

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, June 07 2007 @ 01:35 pm EDT

I'm also beginning to think that we should be rejecting logins without an email address. The only thing that's holding me back is that we will effectively be blocking services that simply don't provide that information, e.g. typekey.com. Other services, like myopenid.com, handle that much better in that they let you chose between different personalities. So if you don't want to hand out your "good" email address, you could use a personality with one that's only a spamtrap.

As for OpenID spam: That has already happened. The ones you saw, though, are only stupid spambots that simply fill out every form they find. I got one of those within minutes when I first tried out the patch on a public website ...

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