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The one who opened an issue is either 13 years old and dumb as a log or a troll (also dumb as a log) and this project is barely used, like at all
So please, don't give them attention
That comment chain was utterly hilarious. The OP practically wanted to block every email provider in existence.
You know because you can create spam from practically every provider. I guess it's good that this kind of idiocy is hashed out rather than just being implemented blindly with a pull request.
And once he got sat the fuck down, he wanted to continue discussing the topic "privately, away from the toxicity", going full out Wormtongue. Fuck him.
Stop all spam with this one simple ~~trick~~ filter! All spam emails contain '@', therefore all emails containing '@' are spam and will be blocked
You cannot even make it past the half-way mark of the OP to realize that the creator has no idea what they are talking about.
Continuing the discussion, the fact that they are so defensive and immediately hide behind moral high ground when someone calls out their mental gymnastics out for the bullshit they are, makes me believe that they are a troll. A child would lose interest after getting so many negative responses.
The behavior you see from the creator is close to a troll tactic called "sealioning". While refusing to give their own claims any plausible proof (they constantly talk about "tests" they've run without any specification thereof), they request sources for any contraindicating claims (discussions which are held off-platform, e.g. on Discord) and failure to engage with any proof of the contrary (refusing to take protonmail and several other legitimate providers off the list) while just reiterating their standpoint over and over again.
All the while, they pretend to discuss sincerely and are always polite and superficially receptive to counterclaims. This is key to their general strategy of eroding a victim's patience and exhaust their attention. One of two outcomes generally occur:
a) The victim snaps. In this case the troll will claim moral high ground and garner sympathy from 3rd-party observers because of fickle reasons like "there is no reason to insult somebody on the internet".
b) The victim leaves in order to not appear unreasonable. On a public platform, like a thread, many observers will then grant the "victory" to the troll because their stand point seems strong and counterclaims seem indefensible. This is the ultimate goal of the troll and what makes it dangerous.
Just reminds me of an idiot PM we had who after realizing you could do the + thing on Gmail addresses made the devs block it, then didn't understand why qa and anyone else testing using those types of email accounts got mad when no one could get in or create new accounts