David A. Golden writes: > I'm not sure if it can be done, but maybe login ID's could done with > an email address rather than a nickname. That would allow module > authors to clearly use their cpan email address for identity (with a > password that is unique to cpanforums). > > Then, for example, nicknames could be set/changed by the user, and > maybe to flag actual authors, only allow an all-caps nickname if it > matches /(\w+)@cpan.org/ or something like that.
That implies case-sensitive nicknames, which doesn't sound smart to me: in general I don't think it would be good to have the possibility of BDFOY and bdfoy being different users. The only way of permitting all Pause ID holders, including those assigned in the future, to have those IDs on CPAN::Forum, while also allowing non-Pause users to have CPAN::Forum IDs, is for the latter to be forced to pick IDs that are not valid Pause IDs (possibily by insisting on including a digit or underscore or space). That could also be an unpopular policy. Smylers
