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

[Nuno Silva]

On 2015-01-11 11:21, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> 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.

This mailing list seems to be already available through gmane:

nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general

For example, here is your message:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general/5017

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Nuno Silva
Helsinki, Finland