On 20-03-19 19:56, Mike Marynowski wrote: > > A couple people asked about me posting the code/service so they could > run it on their own systems but I'm currently leaning away from that. I > don't think there is any benefit to doing that instead of just utilizing > the centralized service. The whole thing works better if everyone using > it queries a central service and helps avoid people easily making bad > mistakes like the one above and then spending hours scrambling to try to > find non-existent botnet infections on their network while mail bounces > because they are on a blocklisted :( If someone has a good reason for > making the service locally installable let me know though, haha.
When people are interested in seeing the code, their main incentive for such a request is probably not that they want to run it themselves. They might, in no particular order: - would like to learn from what you're doing - would like to see how you're treating their contributed data - would like to verify the listing policy that you're proposing - would like to study if there could be better criteria for listing/unlisting than the ones currently available - change things to the software and contribute that back for the benefit of everyone - squash bugs that you're currently might be missing - help out on further development of the service if or when your time is limited - don't be depending on a single person to maintain a service they like This is called open source, and it's a good thing. For details on the philosophy behind it, http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ is a good read. In short: if you like your project to prosper, put it on github for everyone to see. Kind regards, Tom
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