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Why is @163.com email address forbidden in this forum

Postby Whistler » Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:48 am

163.com is a Chinese (PRC) free email service provided by NetEase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase , a NASDAQ-100 component company).

I don't know why registering with 163.com email addresses forbidden here, as it's one of the most widely used free email services (aside from qq.com, sina.com) in PRC.
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Re: Why is @163.com email address forbidden in this forum

Postby moonman » Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:48 am

Most likely because there were many user accounts associated with the service that were used for spamming on the forum.
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Re: Why is @163.com email address forbidden in this forum

Postby WarheadsSE » Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:37 pm

Yup. We had almost a month straight of 8-14 times per day with spam from that domain. We didn't want to, but it solves a problem for the larger community.
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