[gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased

[danny]

I can do port 70



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-------- Original message --------
From: Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> 
Date:01/27/2016  7:35 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Gopher Project Discussion <gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org> 
Subject: Re: [gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased 

It better be fucking on port 70 or I'm out.

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From:prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Sent:January 27, 2016 8:04 PM
To:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject:Re: [gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased

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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