[gopher] ML moderator election

[Héctor A. Abreu]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:59:06PM +0100, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:
> In article <20170808154140.GA13948 at gmail.com>, habreu71-
> Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org says...
> >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.
> 
> Looking at it on Google Groups (ugh), it seems nice an quiet and not very 
> spammy.  
> 
> Pros: It's visible to drive-by people interested in Gopher. 
>       It's [one of] the original homes for Gopher discussion.
> Cons: It's NNTP or Google Groups only, and not a mailing list as well.
>       People connecting and posting via their local NNTP server, would 
> experience a delay in getting replies (I'm not sure of the replication 
> speeds these days).
> 
> -Jar
>       

Would it be a good idea to discuss this Usenet option on the Usenet itself? We just need to start a discussion called something like "Checking Usenet for Gopher-Project Email list members". We can describe the situation of this email list on comp.infosystems.gopher and probably get some useful input from the regular users of that newsgroup, I think several members of this email list have already visited/posted there (Mateuzs Viste is one of them). We can then check anything related to possible delays in getting replies. There are some testing newsgroups (like alt.test) but I think this would be a discussion rather that just a test, and a topic of interest for Gopher and Usenet users alike.

Those who know newcomers who could't join this email list should invite them to participate in that discussion.

I could start the discussion but I would prefer someone with more knowledge on Gopher and newsgroups would do it, I consider myself new to Usenet (just playing around with SLRN) but I find it very interesting. If no one volunteers to start then I can post a message for you to reply.
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Héctor A. Abreu