Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-03 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce J Keeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:06 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: I can't think of a future-proof way of avoiding IDs you allocate conflicting with PAUSE, unless you and Andreas collaborate CPAN IDs are always uppercase, if

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: How would you implement it and if someone comes along and claims he is DCONWAY how can I make sure he really is DCONWAY from PAUSE ? That's not a problem. use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as registering email :) Yeah, for

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote: The same hack as rt.cpan.org uses - attempt a login on pause.cpan.org using the ID and password provided. If PAUSE accepts it, then you know it's the real thing. That would mean my server if cracked could be used to collect PAUSE passwords. I am not sure

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-03 Thread Fergal Daly
There are two useful things that could come from having some PAUSE interaction As an author of several modules, I'd like to be able to tick a box that says monitor all forums for my modules Also, it would be nice if users can see that the author is monitoring a module, it saves having to post a