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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: ActivityPub <=> email bridge?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:12:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230307221210.M598524@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190330014915.o2hw333fjotxkrjy@dcvr>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Is it worth the effort?

Maybe...

> Something tells me that if ActivityPub reaches high-enough
> adoption levels; it'll have to deal with a spam problem that
> email folks have been dealing with for decades, too.
> 
> So ActivityPub seems like a duplicated effort as far as it's use
> for messaging for software development goes...

Still true, but it seems to have caught on, lately...

If we manage to try this, it'll be using AP as a transport layer
and still requiring plain-text and RFC5322 (or 822/2822) plain-text
messages compatible with git-am.

That would allow SpamAssassin or similar to perform spam
filtering w/o modification.

Allowing markup or images from arbitrary posters is a nightmare
in terms of spam, phishing and illegal content, though; so
normal mailing list etiquette still applies.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-07 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-30  1:49 ActivityPub <=> email bridge? Eric Wong
2023-03-07 22:12 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-03-07 22:17   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-03-07 22:25     ` Eric Wong

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