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cromka01/03/20261 replyview on HN

I doubt this will ever happen, as it would make things extremely easy for spammers and scammers.


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mixdup01/03/2026

Why? You could easily block their range and it'd be blocked no matter where they went

IPv6 is already a nightmare for dealing with scammers and spammers. It's very often I get weirdly blocked because someone has abused my ISP's (AT&T) IPv6 block that I'm on and Wikipedia or whoever has blocked an entire /48 or something and it's virtually impossible to get a delegation outside of that range