From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) Subject: Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous. Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:32:08 -0600 Message-ID: <20080207133208.GT26392@lavos.net> References: <20080205211044.GP26392@lavos.net> <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 14:33:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN6s6-0003Vh-5K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:32:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756238AbYBGNcN (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:32:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756819AbYBGNcN (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:32:13 -0500 Received: from mxsf05.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.75]:36084 "EHLO mxsf05.insightbb.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759470AbYBGNcM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:32:12 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,316,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="222520431" Received: from unknown (HELO asav00.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf05.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 07 Feb 2008 08:32:08 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAJeXqkdKhvkY/2dsb2JhbACBWZAsmks X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,316,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="154145910" Received: from 74-134-249-24.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO mail.lavos.net) ([74.134.249.24]) by asav00.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 07 Feb 2008 08:32:09 -0500 Received: by mail.lavos.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9131E309F21; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:32:08 -0600 (CST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vodatqu6w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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