Oh boy, I was wrong. You were serious? I mean, I myself am often telling other programmers to study history of the field, pointing out that a lot of "ground-bre

Oh boy, I was wrong. You were serious? I mean, I myself am often telling other programmers to study history of the field, pointing out that a lot of "ground-breaking" ideas were invented in the '70s, but trying to bring those ideas as realized back then to today's world is not going to work. Both USENET and self-hosted mailing lists died for a reason: it's too cheap to spam them and with increasing number of users, the probability of someone wanting to fuck them up approaches 1. Self-hosting is a good thing, but you can get halfway there by simply having a backup hosting from an unrelated entity. Actually, if you look at GNU Emacs development that I'm familiar with, it's conducted over a mailing list and a self-hosted git repo, but that repo is mirrored and backed up on GitHub...