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I'd rather he'd announce his MTA & MUA so we can reinstate the fossil mailing list. Going to its own quirky (at the time, haven't checked since the switch) foru

• sgbeal 6y ago
  > I'd rather he'd announce his MTA & MUA so we can reinstate the fossil mailing list. It's demonstrably become impossible to manage spam in such an environment without the resources of mega-corps, whereas fossil aims to be a entirely SCM environment in a single binary hosted from modest hardware (e.g. a Raspberry Pi). The inability to manage spam was the driving factor for the forum. It is somewhat quirky, but it works well and our spam rate has been literally one single spam in nearly three years of operation (and that one was subtle - hiding an ad link inside a markdown hyperlink which enclosed only a single period). Similarly, the sqlite forum (which was migrated only relatively recently) is also spam-free. If you have found a way to develop a fully spam-proof, mailing-list-based solution then, by all means, show us the code. Until then, the forum has proven to completely solve the problem it set out to: provide a spam-free communication channel for fossil and sqlite.