Re: OT: rude behaviour

["cat K." <cat@b4udw3rk5.com>]

again your assumptions sound like projection, nothing makes me happier than coming into a CompSci fossil's back yard and shaking their wires to see if there's any life in them. doubly happy if mine name and message is committed to the communal memory.

I think, as you and some others have suggested should be the ones to unsubscribe and, as the young Zoomers say; touch grass.

before the nurse comes over and wonders what all the ruckus around the communal computer is about.


regards

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> On 15 Nov 2025, at 10:25 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> 
> On 2025-11-14, cat K. wrote:
>>> On 15 Nov 2025, at 3:54 AM, Brian Koontz
>>> <brianko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Cat, you can always start your own gopher discussion on discord or
>>> wherever you think traction can be gained. I don’t think anyone here
>>> would oppose that.
>>> 
>>> But in the end, just about every esoteric mailing list I subscribe
>>> to (gopher, pdp-11, packet radio, diy efi, vintage jaguar, etc.) is
>>> catacomb-silent, with occasional bursts of static. I don’t think
>>> it’s a gopher problem. Most of the world doesn’t share our
>>> enthusiasm for eclectic topics like gopher. And tbh I sort of like
>>> it that way.
>> 
>> what possible reason would I have to want to start my own discussion
>> elsewhere when this list, again ostensibly THE list, is finally
>> talking about Gopher?
> 
> You were visibly not happy about how this list was working, and you did
> speak of other media, so one could think you might prefer such a venue
> for conversation.
> 
> -- 
> Nuno Silva
>