From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org> Date: Sun Jan 11 12:26:37 2015 Subject: Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project" On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote: > > On 11 Jan 2015, at 12:21, Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste.fr> wrote: > > > > On 01/10/2015 09:16 PM, Jeff W wrote: > >> Before doing so he moved the gopher project email list over to the Debian > >> project's mailman-based listserv, hence the current arrangement. > > > > About this - why are we all using this mailing list in the first place? > > There have been a dedicated nntp group for gopher since forever: > > comp.infosystems.gopher but surprisingly, this mailing list is much more > > active. > > Yes, NNTP is a much better protocol... but getting a feed nowadays is pretty > complicated unless you pay for some NNTP service. Pretty much all ISPs have > stopped providing that, and free servers went away because of spamming. I recently got a free account here[1] (but really took some time for researching ...). You get free r/w-access to text-only newsgroups. Regards, kaltheat [1] http://www.eternal-september.org/ _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project" (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"