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DNC could have gone open source at anytime.

They choose not to.

These are private emails. Why don't you go 'open source' with your email account?

Private emails... From political parties, public representatives and lobbyists. These are VERY PUBLIC people. IMO, these people should not enjoy having a private life in the first place, because, as the Podesta emails show, they end up using their political career as a way to get more money and power, NOT to serve the People.

I doubt WikiLeaks wants them. Know how to make a Gmail account public?

Maybe I could crowd source people to clean up all the spam?

Well, you probably don't want it continually open, because then you can't use it for authentication?

If you did want it public, you could probably set up an ifttt recipe to post them all somewhere?

Oh, alternate idea: set up a thing to forward all the emails to e.g. a tumblr "email to post" address?

Something like that.

Edit: wait I think ifttt calls them "applets" now instead of recipes?

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