David House
2. Inconsistency. If someone is known by their pseudonym on the mailing list, IRC, haskellwiki, blogs and so on, that is how I know them. How am I meant to find out their real name, in general? The rest of the internet works off pseudonyms and it is more convenient for everyone if hackage follows suit.
And yet this is inconsistency remains regardless: people use different aliases on IRC to the mailing list to Hackage (though I think this is mainly because they have old IRC nicks they still use for internal consistency).
I've been over this thread and couldn't see anywhere where you'd made an attempt to refute these arguments, so I guess you take them as solid. On the other hand, every argument put forward by the pro-restriction group has been picked at and argued against by those against the restriction. That is not a stalemate.
A stalemate occurs when people disagree rather than one side having more compelling arguments. For example, I understand and respect your arguments; I just don't find them compelling enough (since I find it a pain trying to match up different nicks, etc.; though this is to do with the inconsistency you mention above). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com