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

[kaltheat at googlemail.com]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote:
> > On 11 Jan 2015, at 12:21, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> 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.
> 
> Yes, NNTP is a much better protocol... but getting a feed nowadays is pretty 
> complicated unless you pay for some NNTP service. Pretty much all ISPs have 
> stopped providing that, and free servers went away because of spamming.

I recently got a free account here[1] (but really took some time for
researching ...). You get free r/w-access to text-only newsgroups.

Regards,
kaltheat

[1] http://www.eternal-september.org/