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

[Florian Teply]

Am Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:06:20 +0200
schrieb Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com>:

> > 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.
> 
Well, there are still some free NNTP services around, at least if
you're only interested in text-only.

Take for example the OpenNewsNetwork. news.albasani.net forms part of
it, as does news.external-september.org . And there are a few others
as well. Just have a look at
http://www.open-news-network.org (The main website is in german,
the english page seems to be http://www.open-news-network.org/node/5 ).
I've been using their service for quite a number of years already
without a hitch.

Yeah, it's not just clicking twice somewhere to get an account, but
somehow they have to avoid inviting spammers...

HTH,
Florian