On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 03:04:26PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> I have been pondering if we could perhaps setup a public-inbox read-only
> mirror of the posts to discussion. (
>
https://public-inbox.org/README.html ). It would take a bit of work, as
> I think we would need to make a non priv user, subscribe to everything,
> then mangle the emails as they come to not have the reply-to or anything
> else thats specific to the user. However, that could be a solution to
> longer term archiving of things, another way for casual people to read
> things and also allow a nntp frontend for the crazy nntp folks. ;)
> public-inbox is plain text only, so no images/html there.
> If there's enough interest in this I would be happy to work with folks
> who want to set this up.
Rather than email subscription, this could be via a webhook. That payload
includes both the html and "uncooked" message, a bunch of metadata. And it
can trigger on post, edit, metadata change, and other things. That's
probably a better interface than email mangling.