Re: [gopher] Future of this list, etc.

What about freelists.org?

FreeLists is a completely Free service. We're not talking just about price here. See, there's a philosophy behind FreeLists: Knowledge and Information are free, and should stay that way. Our service is about maintaining that objective.

FreeLists provides the internet community with Free, no-hassle, high-quality mailing lists. We don't use advertisements and we don't charge for higher-than-a-certain-volume lists. That means you don't have to worry about too many people signing up, nor the amount of traffic on your list(s). FreeLists is about just getting the message across to your subscribers.

Just throwing this out there. I used to frequent usenet. It is not what it used to be.

Nothing ever stays the same. Improvise, adapt, overcome.....

I am generally a lurker. I can go any direction.

fos1

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:

On 2017-10-01 12:24 +0100, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:
>
> Wrapping a basic web-forum and mailing list system around a single
> public USEnet/NNTP group would be a fairly trivial exercise - I am happy
> to explore this, if we feel that it's worth looking into?

I'd avoid making a web-forum interface unless you have a good way to
handle the "conversions" between e-mail "formatting and markup" and the
web-forum interface way of doing things. (I guess a good one is to do
nothing, and allow only fixed width plain text in the web interface!)

With e-mail and news, we already have the clash between
bottom/interleaved posting style and Microsoft Outlook's corporate reply
and quoting style, and mixes thereof. I'm afraid bringing a web
interface with its own style into the mix would complicate matters.

Other than this concern, perhaps a web interface would be a bit
overkill. But that's also my opinion about this whole idea of "moving
the list" to a newsgroup.

> Whilst we're on the subject of this list... I've noticed that this whole
> thread '[gopher] Future of this list, etc.' is arriving into my
> email inbox with the subject line completely missing. I'm posting this
> via NNTP (as I can't via emailing the list) and that's the only place I
> can see the subject line.

The messages are arriving fine here, as far as I can see (via e-mail,
subjects appear both in mutt and Seamonkey Mail&News).

--
Nuno Silva

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