<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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 <a href="http://emailtoid.net">emailtoid.net</a> service (proof-of-concept) and they've been inundated with spam/bogus accounts.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Earlier they were receiving a large number of spam OpenID signup from Yahoo and a large number of spam account signups from Facebook.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>I don't know that email verification via OpenID would necessarily reduce or prevent spam. Spammers are really good at moving goalposts.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Peter Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Has it been used to solve the commenting spam problem yet (through link up to conventional reputation services)?<br>
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On 14-Oct-08, at 4:06 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dick Hardt <<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> An interesting idea to have an email verification protocol. Could be<br>
>> used as well for fighting spam.<br>
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> Really? How?<br>
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Yes. I dunno -- no one has defined the protocol yet -- but it *could*<br>
also be used to fight spam. Unlikely, but possible. :-)<br>
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