Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenID and Spam. Matt Mullenweg: “OpenID has a ton of promise for the web—let’s not hurt it by setting people up for disappointment by telling them it’s a spam blocker when it’s not.” True for the case of general registration, but I still believe whitelisting known OpenIDs could be a powerful tool for fighting spam on personal sites.

Posted 2nd April 2008 at 7:33 pm

Tagged mattmullenweg, openid, socialwhitelisting, spam, whitelisting

3 comments

Ha! Knew it. When I first read Matt's post, I said to myself, "Simon is so going to quote this..."

I think I remember you cautioning the same advice.

Ryan Tomayko - 2nd April 2008 19:53 - #
Reducing false positives (while nice) isn't going to help you identify spam. So it could make for better spam-fighting finesse, but not more spam-fighting muscle.

Mark Jaquith - 2nd April 2008 23:31 - #
DIG do OpenID-whitelisting with their blogs (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blogs).

Simon Reinhardt - 3rd April 2008 16:06 - #

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