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
