[EuroPython] EuroPython Join-Form: Problem

[Tom Deprez]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> "Benno Luthiger" <benno.luthiger at id.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I've tried to join to the EuroPython Conference. However, the join
>> form (http://www.europython.org/portal_form/join_form) seems not to
>> work. I've tried both with Mozilla and IE.
>
> Ah ha!  Your email address has a period in it; there was a bug that
> caused an infinite loop in this case.
>
> I presume this fixes the performance issues we've been seeing, too:
> every time someone tried to register with a local part of an email
> address that wasn't a valid plone username, we'd have lost a thread to
> 100% CPU land.

funny... this is great news!

Thanks for finding it out

Tom.