[Haskell-cafe] Unified Haskell login

Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 17:25:25 EDT 2010


On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:12:36 +0200, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Let me respond to this directly since a number of people have brought this up:
> 
> Due to spam reasons we can't trust the email given via an OpenID
> provider in general. For example, it would be trivial for me to create
> an OpenID provider for myself, set my email address as <insert someone
> else's address here> and essentially spam them.

One can verify the email address found via the OpenID.
However this would not really be spam since the email contents won't
be chosen by the spammer.

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Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr


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