Re: ActivityPub <=> email bridge?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:12:10PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 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.

I'm not sure about the bridge, but I would very much welcome ability to
archive activitypub messages in a public-inbox archive, with full threading.

> 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.

Perhaps it's possible to allow attachments from specific instances, but the
default for any federated content is just plaintext content?

-K