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

[Mateusz Viste]

Yes, it is, but GMANE is just a mail to nntp translator, without any 
relation to *the* gopher newsgroup (ie. comp.infosystems.gopher).

Currently we have two communities:
  - historical comp.infosystems.gopher (very small)
  - this mailing list (much bigger)

I'm wondering whether it would be possible to unite these two worlds... 
Even if most people on comp.infosystems.gopher are also in this mailing 
list, there's no reason to artificially split an already quite 
fragmented community...

Out of curiosity - who does follow comp.infosystems.gopher here? I am 
pretty sure I am not the only one, but I might just as well be wrong on 
this.

Mateusz



On 01/11/2015 11:52 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:
> 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
>