From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:32:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.
Message-ID: <20080207133208.GT26392@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:14:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is really sad.  gmane gives us a clean threaded interface
> (both in web and newsreader), and it never forgets. Whenever I
> need to refer somebody to an old discussion, I can give an URL
> to it and allmost all the discussion messages are there with a
> single paste and clicking around.  It has been an indispensable
> service to me ever since I started reading the git list with it.
> It is really a shame that I have to prevent picking up patch
> messages from it with the above hook.
> 
> I am wondering if other development communities had a similar
> issue already, and if so how they are dealing with it.

Gmane didn't start doing this until recently.  Maybe they can stop it on
a group-by-group basis?  Every post to git@vger is archived elsewhere
with unmangled email addresses anyway...

"We understand why you're doing this, but it hurts us greatly.  Please
stop."

-bcd