Hi Eric, On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Eric Wong wrote: > Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > I guess I have no really good idea yet, either, how to retain the ease of > > > access of sending mails to the list, yet somehow keep a strong tie with > > > the original data stored in Git. > > > > Does it have to be email? Transmitting text could be solved > > differently as well. > > I've thought a lot about this over the years still think email > is the least bad. Not only that: people are *familiar* with it. And they have *access* to it. > Anti-spam tools for other messaging systems are far behind, > proprietary, or non-existent. bugzilla.kernel.org has been hit > hard lately and I see plenty of bug-tracker-to-mail spam as a > result from projects that use web-based bug trackers. Plus, they are all centralized. Do you want to *require* contibutors to register with a new service? > I guess a blockchain (*coin) implementation might work (like > hashcash is used for email anti-spam), but the ones I've glanced > at all look like a bigger waste of electricity than email > filters. I am not even so much concerned with ecological considerations here. Just the price of entry would be prohibitive. > Of course, centralized systems are unacceptable to me; > and with that I'll never claim any network service I run > will be reliable :) Hehehe. I guess that's why the public-inbox is backed by a Git repository... BTW is it auto-mirrored anywhere? Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html