public-inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists
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public-inbox implements the sharing of an email inbox via git to
complement or replace traditional mailing lists. Readers may
read via NNTP, Atom feeds or HTML archives.
public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
-* Publically accessible and archived communication is essential to
- Free and Open Source development.
-* Contributing to Free and Open Source projects should not require the
- use of non-Free/non-Open Source services or software.
+* Publicly accessible and archived communication is essential to
+ Free Software development.
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+* Contributing to Free Software projects should not require the
+ use of non-Free services or software.
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* Graphical user interfaces should not be required for text-based
communication.
Implementation
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public-inbox uses ssoma[1], Some Sort Of Mail Archiver which implements
no policy of its own. By storing (and optionally) exposing an inbox
via git, it is fast and efficient to host and mirror public-inboxes.
Features
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* anybody may participate via plain-text email
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* stores email in git, readers may have a complete archive of the inbox
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* Atom feed and NNTP allows casual readers to follow via feed reader
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* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
Try it out now, see http://try.public-inbox.org/
* any MUA which may send text-only emails ("git send-email" works!)
Users are strongly encouraged to use the "reply-all" feature of
- their mailers to reduce the impact of a public-inbox as a SPOF.
+ their mailers to reduce the impact of a public-inbox as a
+ single point of failure.
* participants do not need to install public-inbox, only server admins
Requirements (server)
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See http://public-inbox.org/INSTALL
Hacking
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Source code is available via git:
git clone git://80x24.org/public-inbox
Contact
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We are happy to see feedback of all types via plain-text email.
public-inbox discussion is self-hosting on public-inbox.org
Please send comments, user/developer discussion, patches, bug reports,
Anti-Spam
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The maintainer of public-inbox has found SpamAssassin a good tool for
filtering his personal mail, and it will be the default spam filtering
tool in public-inbox.
-See http://public-inbox/dc-dlvr-spam-flow.html for more info.
+See http://public-inbox.org/dc-dlvr-spam-flow.html for more info.
Content Filtering
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To discourage phishing, web bugs (tracking), viruses and other nuisances,
only plain-text content is allowed and non-text content is stripped.
This saves I/O bandwidth and storage, which is important as
Copyright
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Copyright 2013-2015 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
License: AGPLv3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>