[gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"

[Mateusz Viste]

On 01/10/2015 09:16 PM, Jeff W wrote:
> Before doing so he moved the gopher project email list over to the Debian
> project's mailman-based listserv, hence the current arrangement.

About this - why are we all using this mailing list in the first place? 
There have been a dedicated nntp group for gopher since forever: 
comp.infosystems.gopher but surprisingly, this mailing list is much more 
active.

Me personally, I am not a huge fan of mailing lists, and I prefer 
newsgroups, seeing them as a much more efficient and superior 
communication tool than forwarding mails to xxxxxx people around the world.

So why do people use mailing lists (and the gopher mailing list in 
particular), instead of NNTP? Is it because it's more convenient for 
some to use a mailing list than it is to configure a nntp client? (note, 
that Thunderbird does both very well).

If that's the reason, then maybe we could imagine having some kind of 
gateway that would duplicate content from this mailing list to 
comp.infosystems.gopher, and vice-versa, so everyone could use what he 
likes most? Or, a step even further, replace this list with a mail 
gateway to comp.infosystems.gopher ?

These are just loose ideas, and real questions. I'd be curious to know 
what other people think about this. In case there would be some room for 
uniting the mailing list with NNTP, I would definitely be willing to 
provide some time, work and resources for it.

Mateusz