Yes, I think I second William's idea to set a random email address for your site (<a href="mailto:xxxxxx@example.com">xxxxxx@example.com</a>). You could also set the type for the email address field to be hidden which means it is still required but has a default value. Also, the random value should not be repeated as drupal will consider it to be 2 accounts with same email address and will not permit it. However, I still think this is not the best option and D7 should incorporate a facility to allow registration without specifying email address (the use case is not wide but still exists)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM, William Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.darren@gmail.com">william.darren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I believe I've done this in the past by implementing a form_alter in a custom module and setting the email field to a random string of characters.<br><font color="#888888"><br>William</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Luke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drupal@lists.tacticus.com" target="_blank">drupal@lists.tacticus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">I've googled a bit for this. Other than some old patching-core<br>
discussions from 2008, I didn't come up with anything.<br>
<br>
The ability to create accounts without email addresses in D6 is required.<br>
Is there a module with this capability?<br>
It would have to permit accounts to get email addresses later (although we<br>
could do that via CCK if necessary).<br>
<br>
This needs to be a regular module, not a core patch or hack of any kind,<br>
as I will not be maintaining this site going forward, and short of<br>
upgrades, I do not expect the future maintainer to be capable of migrating<br>
custom code.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Luke<br>
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