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The article I feel confuses collaboration between an existing group of people and open public collaboration. The former can setup private repos on github or any
by marcinzm 6y ago
The article I feel confuses collaboration between an existing group of people and open public collaboration. The former can setup private repos on github or any other of fifty approaches. The later however just means you have a different set of single points of failure (mailing list, mailing list archives, domain for mailing list, SMTP server, etc.). Mailing lists may allow the latter to fall back to the former a bit more easily but it's far from a clean transition. So they're at best a very partial band aid for the underlying issues so provide little value versus building an actual solution (ie: over Tor, etc.).
- dkdk8283 6y agoIsn’t the point that if you’re subscribed to a list and receive a message the mail list has no technical ability to recall the message?
- marcinzm 6y agoBut anyone new who is trying to join won't have the messages unless you rebuild a new public archive/website/etc. At which point you can also presumably do daily backups of gitlab data to do basically the same thing.