Re: Contributing to Guix without rDNS

[Zacchaeus]

Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:

> Hi Zacchaeus,
>
> On Thu, Jan 30 2025, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
>> the Guix project is not operating the GNU list servers
>
> The Guix project could operate an authenticated mail relay for members
> like Debian does, but I do not recommend it.
>
> Kind regards
> Felix

Ricardo makes a good point.  I should probably send this specific
complaint to a different gnu.org email (and I will, later).  I suppose
I'd be fine using a Guix relay to contribute to Guix, but I can't help
set that up because, again, anything I set up would be from residential
addresses that are ineligable for rDNS.  As for what I wanted from
guix-devel, I was wondering how I might submit my most recent patch
(adds full Syncthing configuration support) to Guix.  Based on this
conversation, I'm just going to expose my fork of Guix on my website,
continue rebasing on master, stick to the irc, and hope someone with
commit access applies my contributions...

My current long-term project is a Guix-powered box that replaces
someone's router and operates as backups, web-hosting, automatic DNS
updates, and email for you and your friends, such that two boxes can act
as full backup relays for eachother.  Think FreedomBox+DDNS+friends(+a
few other details).  Hence, I am opposed to rDNS and banning residential
IP's on principle.


Thanks again for the responses!
-Zacchae


PS.  I know this maybe isn't the place to complain, but I'm still in
shock.  Brennan's email earlier was neither TLS encrypted nor DKIM
signed, and came from an Amazon IP, but my email with TLS, SPF, DKIM,
and DMARC get's rejected because my IP address is "residential"?  GNU's
not supposed to hate humans.  I shouldn't need to pay some host to be an
equal member on the internet.  I get that spam is a valid concern, and
I'm willing to jump through some hoops to prove personhood, but that
shouldn't involve giving up any digital autonomy.