Re: OT: rude behaviour

[Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>]

It was thus said that the Great cat K. once stated:
> well you've got me there, you're right, that's what you did ask and I
> misunderstood. 

> curse my optimism for thinking we were for a second talking about what
> software does instead of what it does not do.

  So, why should a gopher client support ANSI terminal codes?  Yes, there
are some gopher clients that do.  Some do not.  Some use some very old
clients out there because gopher is *much* easier to support than HTTP or
even Gemini.  And it wouldn't surprise me if people out there are using
non-ANSI escape code terminals.

  There have been proposals to "fix" gopher.  I proposed one to add a
redirection notice to gopher:

	gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/09/30.4

  I don't think it got much uptake.  There are people who think gopher
should be run over TLS and do so, but personally, I think such people are
misguided about the issues it can cause.

	gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/03/31.1

> but now we're dancing around the real point: that there's no discussion
> about Gopher on the Gopher mailing list. there wasn't for months.

  Maybe there isn't much to say about gopher at this time.  What should we
talk about?  

> how little the Gopher mailing list actually cares about Gopher, a protocol
> that despite the contrary wheezing I hear from the infirmary, I do deeply
> care about.

  So why do you care?  If you already talked about it, post the links.  Get
a constructive conversation started, instead of insulting us with trash
like:

> I look forward to having the same conversation when you all rise from your
> tombs next year.

  BE the community you want instead of tasking US with enteriaining you.

  -spc