Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"
On 2015-01-11 11:21, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 01/10/2015 09:16 PM, Jeff W wrote:
> > Before doing so he moved the gopher project email list over to the Debian
> > project's mailman-based listserv, hence the current arrangement.
>
> About this - why are we all using this mailing list in the first place?
> There have been a dedicated nntp group for gopher since forever:
> comp.infosystems.gopher but surprisingly, this mailing list is much more
> active.
>
> Me personally, I am not a huge fan of mailing lists, and I prefer
> newsgroups, seeing them as a much more efficient and superior
> communication tool than forwarding mails to xxxxxx people around the world.
>
> So why do people use mailing lists (and the gopher mailing list in
> particular), instead of NNTP? Is it because it's more convenient for
> some to use a mailing list than it is to configure a nntp client? (note,
> that Thunderbird does both very well).
>
> If that's the reason, then maybe we could imagine having some kind of
> gateway that would duplicate content from this mailing list to
> comp.infosystems.gopher, and vice-versa, so everyone could use what he
> likes most? Or, a step even further, replace this list with a mail
> gateway to comp.infosystems.gopher ?
>
> These are just loose ideas, and real questions. I'd be curious to know
> what other people think about this. In case there would be some room for
> uniting the mailing list with NNTP, I would definitely be willing to
> provide some time, work and resources for it.
This mailing list seems to be already available through gmane:
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general
For example, here is your message:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general/5017
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Nuno Silva
Helsinki, Finland
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