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

[Cameron Kaiser]

Although I respect (and in some ways wouldn't mind) a central planning
process for Gopher, I think that makes what is for many of us a fun sideline
unnecessarily bureaucratic. Many sites here do have at least some of what
you propose already as resources for new users, although candidly much of
the denizens of gopherspace were already using it or rediscovered it rather
than new people who had never experienced it before.

I certainly don't mind someone (you?) constructing a resource with your
proposed services of sufficient quality; I just don't want it to be
constraining. People ask me personally about "changes I would authorize
to gopherspace" presumably because Floodgap is a server of long standing,
but I don't want to be the benevolent dictator of Gopher by default, and
in that vein I would only endorse something voluntary that recognizes the
community will maintain itself best through an organic process.

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