durka: durka: Sorry to say, you basically dared people to do it, by proclaiming that no amount of abuse will cause a change in policy.

I did not “dare” anyone to do anything. This comment is beneath you, just as this entire incident is beneath the Rust community. I feel disappointed and sad that so many of our community members seem to be unwilling to engage with this subject with nuance and maturity.

There exist egregious behaviors that will cause the crates.io administrators to take responsive actions. I think this should be obvious to anyone. Impersonating the crates.io administrators to try to create controversy that will push us to change our policies is, in fact, one such egregious action. I think this should also be obvious to anyone, but apparently it isn’t.

The fact there are ways that use the cargo publish API that require a response from the administrators doesn’t mean that wasting everyone’s time by doing that will change the policy regarding other uses of the cargo publish API that we have determined are allowed. This, again, should be obvious to anyone.

(This is not an official response. I am not a crates.io administrator.)