Re: [gopher] Future of this mailing list
On 2017-10-18 21:07 +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Héctor A. Abreu <habreu71@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 06:22:42PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> >>
> >> Please don't use NNTP... As -- again an irony -- I guess quite a few
> >> subscribers use webmail, Android / iOS native clients, and many other
> >> MUA's that don't support NNTP...
> >>
> >
> > Are there technical reasons preventing some members of this list to
> > subscribe to comp.infosystems.gopher ?
>
>
> Well, the first "non-technical" reason for reading this list via NNTP
> I would say is "we are living in 2017", and it seems that email (and
> SPAM) have won the war...
Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but in the case of
comp.infosystems.gopher, this is definitely not true. SPAM didn't win
the war there.
[...]
> (3) Find an NNTP client compatible with ones platform, and one which
> is up-to-date with regard to security. (Any good, lightweight,
> candidates? And hopefully one that has a GUI? Anything else except
> Thunderbird or Evolution which are humongous monsters?)
> (3a) Find a packaged binary for your OS.
> (3b) Learn how to use it.
>
> (4) Configure everything so that it works.
>
> (5) Repeat from step (3) with each device one uses. (Say at least
> laptop and phone.)
[...]
I agree that requiring additional steps will scare away people with
little time. From this point of view, migrating to another list server,
especially one that does not require a google account to configure the
subscription options, would be a good option, as then the list of
subscribers could possibly be just migrated?
--
Nuno Silva
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