It's not particularly aimed at spam comments I think, but at the fact that people wanted a way for non-LJ users to be able to leave "signed" comments - they'll be authenticated by an email sent to the address that is given for the comment (only needs to be done once).
The handy side effect of this is that I'll be able to turn off anonymous commenting because I feel that anyone legit should be happy to leave an email address (I don't think it will necessarily be displayed - just authenticated). Spammers won't be able to use this interface even if they can figure out how to auto-authenticate because you can ban an email and they can't use fake ones because they won't authenticate.
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Date: February 27th, 2004 03:48 am (UTC)From:The handy side effect of this is that I'll be able to turn off anonymous commenting because I feel that anyone legit should be happy to leave an email address (I don't think it will necessarily be displayed - just authenticated). Spammers won't be able to use this interface even if they can figure out how to auto-authenticate because you can ban an email and they can't use fake ones because they won't authenticate.