On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David House <dmho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring > real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's > wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was > turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username. > > Those of us in the conversation thought this a bit of an odd policy, > and were wondering where this came from. It also emerged that a couple > of other people had been held back from getting Hackage accounts > because of this reason.
It must've been put in place in the past year or two; I've never made any bones about using a pseudonym, and I had no trouble getting a Hackage account back when it was starting up. -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
