Re: Applying patches from gmane can be dangerous.

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

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* Brian Downing [off-list ref] [080207 07:32]:

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:14:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

I just requested this setting to be changed.  Will keep you posted.

Okay, this took a while, basically, because I am not registered as a "list 
admin" at gmane.

But Abdel, who is, sorted out the problems, and we will no longer have 
this issue.

Thanks for your attention,
Dscho