[gopher] Next steps on this list

Mateusz Viste mateusz at nospam.viste.fr
Fri Oct 20 20:03:53 UTC 2017


On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:52:49 -0500, Keiya wrote:
> On 2017-10-20 10:48, Nuno Silva wrote:
>> On 2017-10-20 08:48 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
>>> setting it up.  However, I view "just shut the list and tell everyone
>>> to use comp.infosystems.gopher" as likely death to the community we
>>> have
>> 
>> It would also become a single-point-of-failure by itself.
>> 
> Not really, usenet is an inherently distributed thing, even if one
> server goes offline you can just use another.

I don't think that's what Nuno was suggesting, even though you cut his 
reply conveniently so it would look so :)

The SPOF Nuno was pointing at was the undefined "something 
better" (implicitly *not* USENET) that John was wondering about.

Mateusz
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