# Crates.io squatting

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-squatting/8031>\
**Category:** tools and infrastructure\
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-squatting/8031 "2018-07-22T19:09:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-squatting/8031/34 "2018-09-13T23:24:56Z")

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> [@bgeron](#):
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> If you have new arguments or proposals that weren’t mentioned before, then I suppose that this is the place to mention them.

This is the key, I think. Cries that "somebody should do something" are no more useful in moving the conversation forward than ignoring the issue.

I doubt anybody strongly disagrees that this is a _potential_ problem at some point, whether or not we've reached it already, but there has obviously already been significant discussion on this problem, and barring either:

1. A significant change in the problem of 'squatting' in its actual effect beyond annoyance, which doesn't yet seem to be manifest.
2. A bold new proposal as to how to deal with the problem that merits discussion.

There's not a whole lot of new ground to tread, is there?

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