I'm not email@email.com, but your blog doesn't know that
Here's a question that I don't know the answer to: why is it that most blogs require you to give them your email address in order to comment, but apparently do nothing with the address? (I don't post on blogs that will post my email under any conditions, such as if there's no URL.)
It's easy to make up a fake email, and no verification is used on the sites. I don't think spam comments can be stopped this way, for exactly this reason. So what purpose does the email address accomplish? It's not published, and it's not responded to, and it's not verified.
(I should disclose that I normally list an email which is apparently still under my control, but which I certainly don't check. And apparently I don't get spam from these blogs, because that address has no messages, but I still remain reluctant to post my real address in most cases, especially because: why?)
It's easy to make up a fake email, and no verification is used on the sites. I don't think spam comments can be stopped this way, for exactly this reason. So what purpose does the email address accomplish? It's not published, and it's not responded to, and it's not verified.
(I should disclose that I normally list an email which is apparently still under my control, but which I certainly don't check. And apparently I don't get spam from these blogs, because that address has no messages, but I still remain reluctant to post my real address in most cases, especially because: why?)