From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22A61F47D for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:12:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=80x24.org; s=selector1; t=1678227130; bh=mWwCXlPHAWPUcLargoghFI7J0bEa8s64R68FEb7T3Ic=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=RROSpJRgIZ4NqKLw1pasC5RxAjIul+OetigUwWBN3rCIsNLhtRQ/ccsRmChlxpsWR R+RX5EObjgCazNLpWcLh4AfafT1HEkgqlG9RS+jpNntZBGTOs70MXGLy/j6VspVrEH qBf7L7dKxFV/Hpg3i2DWaBPadz5uYrsbBwtDglS4= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:12:10 +0000 From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: Re: ActivityPub <=> email bridge? Message-ID: <20230307221210.M598524@dcvr> References: <20190330014915.o2hw333fjotxkrjy@dcvr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190330014915.o2hw333fjotxkrjy@dcvr> List-Id: Eric Wong 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.