[Savannah-hackers] Re: ["]d" <address@hidden>] non-gnu/woom woom.dia

[Mark H. Weaver]

"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> writes:

> The person who registered project WOOM, told Savannah's interface that his
> real name is ]d and the interface accepted it
> (http://savannah.gnu.org/users/id)
> 
> Should we change the user registration script to refuse certain special
> characters such as ] in the Real Name field? and how about requiring a minimum
> number of characters?

I personally don't think this is worthwhile.  No matter what automated
rules we impose, we cannot prevent people from using non-sensical real
names.  Any restrictions we add are likely to get in the way of
certain aliases that people might want to use.

        Mark