Oh hey, I was the person who reported this.

mananaysiempre a day ago | parent | next [-]

I have to say that I don't understand the approach. On one hand, addresses @inbox.ru are administered by Mail.Ru, the largest Russian free email host (although I have the impression that its usage is declining), so quite a few (arguably unwise) real people might be using them (I’ve actually got one that I haven’t touched in a decade). On the other, the process for getting an address @inbox.ru is identical to getting one @mail.ru and IIRC a couple of other alternative domains, but only this specific one is getting banned.

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takipsizad a day ago | parent [-]

pypi has blocked signups from outlook before. I don't think they care about the impact it creates

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dewey a day ago | parent | next [-]

I know a bunch of sites who do that and the problem is usually that register emails get flagged by outlook and never arrive, causing a lot of support burden. Easier to then nudge people into the direction of Gmail or other providers that don't have these issues.

	▲	takipsizad a day ago \| parent [-]
		it was in the context of blocking email providers because of malicious mass signups (https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-06-16-prohibiting-msn-email...)

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jrockway a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been down that road before. Blocking Outlook and Protonmail filters out 0% of legitimate users and 75% of bots. You do what you can so you're not always 1 step behind.

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f311a a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you have special access or such thing can be tracked from outside somehow? Could be a fun project to detect this kind of abusive behavior automatically

	▲	miketheman a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sadly the majority of this data is not externally visible.

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miketheman a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you!