<div dir="ltr">woot woot :)<div><br></div><div>Is this going to be a website?</div><div><br></div><div>Just some static html pages?</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>James</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px"><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">James Mills / prologic</font><br><br><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><font face="'courier new', monospace">E: <a href="mailto:prologic@shortcircuit.net.au" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">prologic@shortcircuit.net.au</a></font></span><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px">W: </span><a href="http://prologic.shortcircuit.net.au" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">prologic.shortcircuit.net.au</a><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Kevin Veroneau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@veroneau.net" target="_blank">kevin@veroneau.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have space, but alas, port 70 is already in use. Why not see if SDF.org would be willing to help out?<br>
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Subject:Re: [gopher] Gopherplus.org purchased<br>
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I have space on my servers if needed and would be glad to give it hosting.<br>
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> As it had been said on this list, gopher users are going to be in<br>
> competition with Go, a new programming language. Go programmers already<br>
> use<br>
> the gopher mascot and the word "gopher"! Soon the word "gopher" will rely<br>
> only to Go and not anymore to our favourite Internet protocol.<br>
><br>
> It is a fact that we, users of Gopher protocol, are not yet organized as<br>
> the<br>
> World Wide Web consortium (W3C) is. So I take the initiative to preserve<br>
> our<br>
> interests by launching an Internet site devoted to the promotion of Gopher<br>
> protocol in the same way than W3C does.<br>
><br>
> As some of you had maybe did it, I searched a vacant domain name relying<br>
> to<br>
> the word "gopher". I didn’t found nothing available. And truly, it is<br>
> difficult to preserve the property of a word referring to an animal (or<br>
> something that belong to an well known major actor of Internet).<br>
> Extending<br>
> my search around the word "gopher+" I found a web site (<a href="http://gopherplus.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gopherplus.com</a>)<br>
> that<br>
> sell a soft/diet drink named Gopher+!<br>
><br>
> Fortunately, the domain “gopherplus.org†didn’t exist. I purchased<br>
> it and<br>
> set immediately a web page to make this new domain visible.<br>
><br>
> And now what to do with that? Honesty, my English is ridiculous (it is not<br>
> my mother tong) and I am unable to publish in this language. Hence, I do<br>
> this proposal:<br>
><br>
> 1. Any person who want to publish a blog post on this new website can<br>
> send<br>
> me by mail the article.<br>
> 2. Any persons having a fixed IP address and interested to accept the<br>
> duty<br>
> of web-master and gopher-master, can contact me. I will modify the DNS<br>
> accordingly. (For both items, my mail address is that one in the Whois<br>
> database for <a href="http://gopherplus.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gopherplus.org</a> domain.)<br>
> 3. In the future, if an international organization for the Gopher<br>
> protocol<br>
> (similar to the W3C) is launched, I hereby declare to donate my domain to<br>
> it.<br>
><br>
> --deber<br>
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