On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <a...@perl.org> wrote: > On Apr 9, 2013, at 6:45, David Golden <x...@xdg.me> wrote: >> PAUSE ID's cost very little to provide. I see no reason to deny >> anyone's application as long as they seem human and mention Perl. > > They get an email address and a link from the CPAN sites and could use both > for spam.
So could the existing user base. Here's what an intentional spammer would have to do: Eve: I want a PAUSE ID: xdg: (canned email) We only give them out to people who want to upload Eve: I want to upload to CPAN xdg: (approves) Nothing I do stops malicious (human) applicants from doing whatever they want. If I see half a dozen nearly identically-worded applications in a day, of course I'll throw up the red flag and ask you guys to dig into it. Longer-term, anything automated would need the usual email confirmation cycle that most online services have. David -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg
