[gopher] Future of mailing list

[Héctor A. Abreu]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 07:24:54AM +0000, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:46:07 +0300, Kim Holviala wrote:
> > This is getting ridiculous - so if it's ok for everyone I'll run the
> > mailing list under gophernicus.org <http://gophernicus.org/>. I've run a
> > mailserver close to 20 years so I know how it's done and I'm pretty sure
> > I'll run a mailserver for the next 20 years too.
> 
> Running a mailserver is so... usual. I'd really expect more from you, 
> Kim ;-)
> 
> What about running a news2mail gateway that would send messages from a 
> virtual mailing list to comp.infosystems.gopher back and forth? THAT is a 
> cool thing :) Heck, there are even a bunch of open-source tools around 
> for exactly that purpose. You don't need to provide any storage - just a 
> few CPU cycles, some kbps of bandwidth and... hours of your time on 
> maintenance.
> 
> This would make, I believe, everybody happy: usenet lovers get their NNTP 
> access, spam lovers can use their outlook thing, and the list gets a 
> reliable archiving system for free.
> 

Wow, that would give the happiest ending to the NNTP vs email-list discussion. If you guys ask for voting, you can count my vote for that!
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Héctor A. Abreu