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Re: Monitoring a repository for changes

From
EWEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date
Jun 21, 2017, 22:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20170621223657.GA1141@dcvr>
In-Reply-To
<20170621222013.GA24176@dcvr>
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> And, yes, email does seem redundant, and
> modern header sizes (with DKIM, etc) are gigantic; but
> connection lifetime and concurrency is manageable to the server
> even if not instantaneous.

I should add that any email notification message should be significantly shorter than a normal message going to the list; possibly just a parsable subject line and empty body.

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  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 21, 2017
  3. Jeff KingJun 21, 2017
  4. Stefan BellerJun 21, 2017
  5. Eric WongJun 21, 2017
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 21, 2017
  7. Eric WongJun 21, 2017
  8. Eric WongJun 21, 2017
  9. Jonathan NiederJun 21, 2017

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