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.
+
+* Contributing to Free Software projects should not require the
+ use of non-Free services or software.
+
* 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.
_Anybody_ may also setup a delivery-only mailing list server to
replay a public-inbox git archive to subscribers via SMTP.
-[1] http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/
+[1] https://ssoma.public-inbox.org/
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/
+Try it out now, see https://try.public-inbox.org/
Requirements for reading:
* 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
+
+See https://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,
The archives are readable via NNTP or HTTP:
nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta
- http://public-inbox.org/meta/
+ https://public-inbox.org/meta/
You may also clone all messages via git:
- git clone --mirror git://public-inbox.org/meta.git
+ git clone --mirror https://public-inbox.org/meta/
Or pass the same git repository URL for ssoma using the instructions at:
- http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/README.html
+ https://ssoma.public-inbox.org/README.html
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 https://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>
+
+Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7: