Re: Is this list still going?
On 2025-11-14, cat K. wrote:
>> On 14 Nov 2025, at 10:38 AM, Nuno Silva
>> <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>>
>> On 2025-11-13, cat K. wrote:
>>
>>> I maintain a Gopher presence (several if you're keeping score) but I
>>> wasn't on this list. I joined the list because of this topic to ask;
>>> why is this Gopher mailing list - ostensibly THE Gopher mailing list -
>>> the single worst representation of Gopher space going?
>>>
>>> Gopher is currently better represented on TikTok than this list and
>>> it's embarrassing. who is list for except for people who
>>> want-to-but-never-will use Gopher, people who used-to-but-now-don't
>>> use Gopher and people who just subscribe to mailing lists out of some
>>> bizarre tech FOMO?
>>>
>>> this list has less traffic than your mom's OnlyFans, it's cringe.
>>
>> Lists not having too much traffic isn't bad. It may even be good or
>> excellent and mean that when there *is* traffic, it's related to the
>> topic, and people stay subscribed because of that.
>>
>> It's also not fair to describe this list as "people who
>> used-to-but-now-don't use Gopher", specs and features have been
>> described in this list, people who wrote clients are on this list too,
>> and I've already recognized names in replies to this thread from people
>> who do run gopherholes.
>>
> have been, who wrote, past tense. this topic is the only traffic the
> list has seen since April. I get info and updates by carrier pigeon
> more frequently.
Do not try to extract more meaning from grammatical aspects of the
English language than there is in them.
You're basically arguing that using proper verb tenses is something
shameful.
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Nuno Silva
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