Re: Strange account requests

Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote: > With the upcoming elections, I find it a tad strange that in the last 2 days we > have had account requests, almost one after the other, from (will not include > the last names, just the initial): > > AAaron B. > Aaron T. > Aaron C. > Aaron W. > Aaron D. > Aaron O. > > All of them soliciting an account for "voting in the general elections". In > fact there have been requests like that one for some time, and personally I had > not granted them because getting a PEAR account just to vote does not seem to > me good enough (but that is just me). > > This series of requests is either a very fortituous coincidence or some attempt > at spamming the account creating system. > > I am disclosing this to all PEAR devs, so we all are aware of this possible > problem. Hi Jesus, We have a new auto-registration system for voting in general elections (not like the ones open now for PEAR Group/president). These accounts only require a valid email address. For most elections, these users will not be able to vote, as pear.dev karma is required. However, for potential elections where we want the opinion of the outside world, such as a competition for a redesign of the website, or other questions of that nature, they will be able to vote. It's possible there really are a bunch of Aaron's requesting voting rights, were they all from the same email host? Greg