[gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

[Héctor A. Abreu]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:16:45AM +0100, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What with the ongoing discussion on where the list is going, and lots of 
> peoples adversion to USENET and Google Groups (the latter of which I 
> also dislike), I spent a couple of hours last night, coding up this:
> 
> http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/usenet/
> 
> It's 100% a proof of concept, and very rough around the edges, and also 
> doesn't have any posting ability (yet!), but it's something I've been 
> meaning to do for quite some time, as there are quite a few low traffic 
> USENET groups I want to start following regularly.
> 
> So, is this useful or not?  If it was fleshed out into a proper platform 
> would people use it?  Does it help in the on-going conversation of 
> whether to migrate to comp.infosystems.gopher or not?
> 
> Of course, it's not that hard to evolve what I've got to include a 
> mailing list function and a proper domain for it to live on etc. Which I 
> am happy to host and manage.
> 

Looks nice! I hope you include UTF-8 support. My name is shown with garbage characters.

Regards,
-- 
Héctor A. Abreu