[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Chris Messina]

No. I know that Mollum and Defensio (similar to Akismet) are both "aware" of
OpenID and might use them in their ranking algorithms, but Ma.gnolia's
experience having moved entirely to OpenID/Facebook account creation/sign-in
is that it only moves the problem.
Ma.gnolia (a social bookmarking service) has also implemented EAUT (allowing
people to sign-in with their email address and no password) backending on
the emailtoid.net service (proof-of-concept) and they've been inundated with
spam/bogus accounts.

Earlier they were receiving a large number of spam OpenID signup from Yahoo
and a large number of spam account signups from Facebook.

As far as email verification with OpenID, we'd be offering user-convenience
and a potential mechanism for single sign-on, putting the email provider in
the role of identity provider or, if the protocol requires it, allowing
someone to delegate their email address by way of redirect to a third-party
OpenID provider from their email provider.

I don't know that email verification via OpenID would necessarily reduce or
prevent spam. Spammers are really good at moving goalposts.

Chris

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> Has it been used to solve the commenting spam problem yet (through link up
> to conventional reputation services)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:12 AM
> To: Ben Laurie <benl at google.com>
> Cc: OpenID List <general at openid.net>
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research
>
>
> On 14-Oct-08, at 4:06 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> An interesting idea to have an email verification protocol. Could be
> >> used as well for fighting spam.
> >
> > Really? How?
>
> Yes. I dunno -- no one has defined the protocol yet -- but it *could*
> also be used to fight spam. Unlikely, but possible. :-)
>
> -- Dick
>
>

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