Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote:
> > On 11 Jan 2015, at 12:21, Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste.fr> 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.
>
> Yes, NNTP is a much better protocol... but getting a feed nowadays is pretty
> complicated unless you pay for some NNTP service. Pretty much all ISPs have
> stopped providing that, and free servers went away because of spamming.
I recently got a free account here[1] (but really took some time for
researching ...). You get free r/w-access to text-only newsgroups.
Regards,
kaltheat
[1] http://www.eternal-september.org/
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