[gopher] Future of this list, etc.

Mr. Leveck leveck at leveck.us
Sun Oct 1 18:21:26 UTC 2017


I concur. Fast, clean, email agnostic, backed-up, unobtrusive, reliable.

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Leveck

1. Oct 2017 12:16 by mateusz at nospam.viste.fr:


> On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:39:49 +0100, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:
>
> Hi Jaruzel. Nice nickname, although it calls for some unwanted memories 
> that many people would prefer to forget :)
>
>> What are we actaully trying to fix here?
>
> I wouldn't say "fixing". Rather "planning long-term".
>
>> Assuming:
>> 1. Gmane.org NNTP is still staying online?
>
> For now. Who knows if it will be there one year from now. 10 years?
> The Usenet, on the other hand, is very likely to be around for a very 
> long time.
>
>> If it's just a case of losing the mailinglist system and we can't move
>> to lists.debian.org, then surely thats an easy fix with a low-cost
>> server (such as the new gopherproject.org server) ?
>
> Or use the *free* (no cost for using) Usenet that is already serving the 
> world reliably and consistently for almost 40 years.
>
>> Developing a 'complete replacement' solution seems overkill if the Gmane
>> NNTP stays up.
>
> Not developing. Simply subscribe to comp.infosystems.gopher and we're 
> done with this problem for good.
>
> Mateusz
> -- 
> mailing lists suck, right? come see us at comp.infosystems.gopher
> why? gopher://gopher.viste.fr/0whyusenet.txt
>
>
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