Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.

> * Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> [080207 07:32]:
> > 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."
> 
> Gmane has always done the "hide the real email" address on groups that
> request it.  The git group does *not* request it, but the msysgit group
> *has* requested it.