[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

[Joe Fredette]

Exactly, it's not like the Hackage people are doing extensive  
background checks of everyone, they just want something consistent.

You guys don't _really_ think my name is Joe Fredette, right?

I'm actually Batman.

/Joe

On Apr 4, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
> <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Some people are paranoid about such things, for example because it  
>> would
>> allow people to google-mine for things they'd rather a random HR  
>> person not
>> reading by linking names together.
>
> In addition, the concept is rather silly, as one can just take a
> pseudonym without any of us knowing:
>
> Whats new:
> Thu Apr 1 13:37:00 UTC 2010  NicolasBourbaki   algebre-1.0
>
> History is ripe with examples of this.
>
> -- 
> J.
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