[OGDev] What are people working on?

[Daniel Alexander Smith]

On 4 Mar 2007, at 20:37, Bob Walker wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, jesse wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I've already seen spammers setting up free, throwaway OpenID
>> accounts. If you're going to go this route, you might want to  
>> restrict
>> to "trusted' openid providers, such as LJ.
>>
>
> indeed. that was the plan. althogh admiitedly its not outside the  
> realms
> of possibility that spammers can set up spam LJs.

Using OpenID is great.

Using it because it you think it's anti-spam is totally  
misunderstanding what it is, sorry.

Enabling it, but then whitelisting it is even worse, it's a horrible  
hack that doesn't even work (as Bob noted).

In conclusion, integrate OpenID please, but don't prevent anyone from  
using their OpenID, because that is completely against the whole idea  
of a distributed ID system. Also, please try to understand that any  
way this is done, it will not prevent spam.


Regards,


Daniel Alexander Smith