[gopher] ML moderator election

[SiMpLe MaChInEs]

SiMpLe MaChInEs <simple at sdf.org> wrote:

> H?ctor A. Abreu <habreu71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:06:34AM -0600, SiMpLe MaChInEs wrote:
> > > 
> > > Anyway.. What if we just moved the mailing list elsewhere, maybe to
> > > suckless.org or floodgap.com?
> > > 
> >
> > There is already a newsgroup comp.infosystems.gopher , if that can be an option.
> > -- 
> > H?ctor A. Abreu
>
> Excellent idea - maintenance-free and barrier-free - I second this option.

Heh - responding to my own post again..

FYI, even though Usenet subscriptions have largely been dropped by the major ISPs,
at least in the US, there are several free Usenet servers available[1,2] plus Google
Groups for the console-impaired.  And the lynx browser that so many use for Gopher
also does NNTP[3] so can move seemlessly between Gopher and Usenet.

Jeff

[1] http://news.aioe.org/ - no registration required
[2] http://www.eternal-september.org/ - registration required

[3] some lynx(1) Usenet URL examples:

    news://news.aioe.org/ - main dir at aioe.org
    nntp://news.aioe.org/ - same as above
    nntp:/sci.misc  -  access sci.misc group via NNTPSERVER:dom.nntp.server set in ../lynx.cfg 
                       or set as shell variable, ie. NNTPSERVER=news.eternal-september.org