[gopher] Future of this list, etc.

[Jeff Greer]

What about freelists.org?

*FreeLists is a completely Free service. We're not talking just about price
here. See, there's a philosophy behind FreeLists: Knowledge and Information
are free, and should stay that way. Our service is about maintaining that
objective.*

*Free*Lists provides the internet community with Free, no-hassle,
high-quality mailing lists. We don't use advertisements and we don't charge
for higher-than-a-certain-volume lists. That means you don't have to worry
about too many people signing up, nor the amount of traffic on your
list(s). *Free*Lists is about just getting the message across to your
subscribers.

Just throwing this out there. I used to frequent usenet. It is not what it
used to be.

Nothing ever stays the same. Improvise, adapt, overcome.....

I am generally a lurker. I can go any direction.

fos1


On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> On 2017-10-01 12:24 +0100, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:
> >
> > Wrapping a basic web-forum and mailing list system around a single
> > public USEnet/NNTP group would be a fairly trivial exercise - I am happy
> > to explore this, if we feel that it's worth looking into?
>
> I'd avoid making a web-forum interface unless you have a good way to
> handle the "conversions" between e-mail "formatting and markup" and the
> web-forum interface way of doing things. (I guess a good one is to do
> nothing, and allow only fixed width plain text in the web interface!)
>
> With e-mail and news, we already have the clash between
> bottom/interleaved posting style and Microsoft Outlook's corporate reply
> and quoting style, and mixes thereof. I'm afraid bringing a web
> interface with its own style into the mix would complicate matters.
>
> Other than this concern, perhaps a web interface would be a bit
> overkill. But that's also my opinion about this whole idea of "moving
> the list" to a newsgroup.
>
> > Whilst we're on the subject of this list... I've noticed that this whole
> > thread '[gopher] Future of this list, etc.' is arriving into my
> > email inbox with the subject line completely missing. I'm posting this
> > via NNTP (as I can't via emailing the list) and that's the only place I
> > can see the subject line.
>
> The messages are arriving fine here, as far as I can see (via e-mail,
> subjects appear both in mutt and Seamonkey Mail&News).
>
> --
> Nuno Silva
>
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