[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

Hi, An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username. Those of us in the conversation thought this a bit of an odd policy, and were wondering where this came from. It also emerged that a couple of other people had been held back from getting Hackage accounts because of this reason. Seeing as it's also trivially easy to fake a name, what's the purpose of this restriction? Thanks, -David