Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.

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