[gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased

[James Mills]

woot woot :)

Is this going to be a website?

Just some static html pages?

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> I have space, but alas, port 70 is already in use.  Why not see if SDF.org
> would be willing to help out?
>
>   Original Message
> From:danny at missing.com
> Sent:January 27, 2016 6:28 PM
> To:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject:Re: [gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased
>
> I have space on my servers if needed and would be glad to give it hosting.
>
> > As it had been said on this list, gopher users are going to be in
> > competition with Go, a new programming language. Go programmers already
> > use
> > the gopher mascot and the word  "gopher"! Soon the word "gopher" will
> rely
> > only to  Go and not anymore to our favourite Internet protocol.
> >
> > It is a fact that we, users of Gopher protocol, are not yet organized as
> > the
> > World Wide Web consortium (W3C) is. So I take the initiative to preserve
> > our
> > interests by launching an Internet site devoted to the promotion of
> Gopher
> > protocol in the same way than W3C does.
> >
> > As some of you had maybe did it, I searched a vacant domain name relying
> > to
> > the word "gopher". I didn’t found nothing available. And truly, it is
> > difficult to preserve the property of a word referring to an animal (or
> > something that belong to an well known major actor of Internet).
> > Extending
> > my search around the word "gopher+" I found a web site (gopherplus.com)
> > that
> > sell a soft/diet drink named Gopher+!
> >
> > Fortunately, the domain “gopherplus.org† didn’t exist.  I purchased
> > it and
> > set immediately a web page to make this new domain visible.
> >
> > And now what to do with that? Honesty, my English is ridiculous (it is
> not
> > my mother tong) and I am unable to publish in this language. Hence, I do
> > this proposal:
> >
> >   1. Any person who want to publish a blog post on this new website can
> > send
> > me by mail the article.
> >   2. Any persons having a fixed IP address and interested to accept the
> > duty
> > of web-master and gopher-master, can contact me. I will modify the DNS
> > accordingly. (For both items, my mail address is that one in the Whois
> > database for gopherplus.org domain.)
> >   3. In the future, if an international organization for the Gopher
> > protocol
> > (similar to the W3C) is launched, I hereby declare to donate my domain to
> > it.
> >
> > --deber
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