Re: the idea of a Gopher Wayback machine

["kd4wov@earthlink.net" <kd4wov@earthlink.net>]

I think the idea of a gopher wayback machine is a great idea. Only thing that I say is there needs to be a way to one. Either opt out or two. There needs to be a way to opt in to be put on that list that it that it uses to go and collect gopher sites. I think it would be great because it gives us some historical perspectives and it gives us the ability to go back and see what others in the past have done and admire their great works.

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From: cat Kalmar
Sent: Tue Nov 18 03:10:51 EST 2025
To: gopher-project@other.debian.org
Subject: the idea of a Gopher Wayback machine

a little way back (see what I did there?) I brought up the idea of a 
Gopher Wayback machine to Bitreich's 20h in the hopes of bullying him 
into action and it didn't go as expected. I wasn't thinking he'd do it, 
he's busy and I wasn't asking nicely.

what surprised me is he thought the idea was wrong and dumb. he didn't 
like the idea of recording Gopher history in that way and talked about a 
right to be forgotten.

I'm on the opposite side of the fence, I feel like history is more 
important than that right, and if you publish something publicly then 
you do so knowing that you absolve yourself of that right.

so I ask the list, what are your thoughts on the idea of a Gopher 
Wayback machine?


regards