jadero

Thanks!

The Stalwart mail server allows for that. They call them “spam traps”.

Basically, it’s a real email address that literally never gets used or referenced anywhere, thus assuring any email received is unsolicited by definition. Stalwart’s spam engine uses any such email to help train the spam filter.

I can’t imagine that Stalwart is only one implementing such a system.

I’ve never used Stalwart, but it’s the email server I’ve selected should I decide to do what everyone tells me I shouldn’t: run my own server for me, my wife, and the two domains we control. Their documentation is basically a master class in email.

I’m only just embarking on my git journey as a hobbyist. When programming was my career, I was a solo programmer and subversion was almost overkill.

When I look at the diagram of “merge” I see what I would have thought to be perfection itself, not something pain inducing.

As I said, I’m just getting started. Is there no tooling to make this graph painless and useful or is it left to mental visualisations?

This is not a direct answer, but I think you have the beginnings of a useful perspective in that episode of “Family Ties”. Namely, it is not a problem arising from the ephemeral nature of software, but the nature of time and change.