Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:45:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from web35504.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.163.179.128]) by glockenspiel.complete.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) id 1IuZ2N-0002OS-8H for gopher@complete.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:45:38 -0600 Received: (qmail 62647 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Nov 2007 19:45:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Kdi8qRKGZfXva02MbpJ8mgdKLiRCcDPpSYpKJjEz3vsbN6TpIzXRl9j0F+24SGZRkGzi5b8t7LBCc5l7lW0im91wSpHcC67sOB2Nq4yppKoEIoUUesgL4QpUxfi0c6I1OROykosBxFtQ8IETgfWngax5cNjQMsi18YacUVC3NXU=; X-YMail-OSG: wRt2OZUVM1lSK_mgP9gzNUBSRSOP7w.DnEhJ9cpE Received: from [209.216.94.5] by web35504.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:45:25 PST Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:45:25 -0800 (PST) From: JumpJet Mailbox Subject: [gopher] Re: BRING THE GOPHER BACK To: gopher@complete.org In-Reply-To: <200711152143.00540.jgoerzen@complete.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <339532.61765.qm@web35504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Status: No (score 1.4): AWL=0.039, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.479, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS=0.879, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:45:38 -0600 X-archive-position: 1743 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: jumpjetinfo@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: Gopher X-List-ID: Gopher List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: gopher I think more people know about Usenet than Gopher (Outlook Express still supports it, as does your local ISP)... But thats not here or there. What would be nice is if this Mailing List was mirrored to a Usenet Gopher Newsgroup. John Goerzen wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007 7:26:38 pm Stegozor wrote: > As for the marketing, I have a quite simple proposal: let's move from > this list to the public news:comp.infosystems.gopher newsgroup before > it is possibly removed by the Big-8 managament board because of Few people know about Usenet. Many more know about email. They are not in competition, and people do not move by fiat. The Usenet group will become more active if people post in it. Lots of Usenet newsgroups look dead. comp.lang.functional, for instance. Yet just one mailing list for just one functional language (Haskell) has dozens of posts per day sometimes. I think that lack of activity on Usenet is a commentary about Usenet more than anything else. I used to participate in Usenet frequently, but I can't remember the last time I posted there, though I do use NNTP via gmane.org to track some mailing lists. I'm glad to see you are enthusiastic about gopher! I would suggest the "lead by doing" philosophy sometimes; yep, there are things to do, and perhaps people know about them and aren't doing things because of lack of time. You're welcome to pitch in, too. -- John --------------------------------- Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.