[gopher] ML moderator election

[Jacob Head]

On 08/08/17 18:10, Matt Owen (Jaruzel) wrote:

> Likewise, a simple WWW to/from NNTP interface is a no-brainer, and easily
> built.  I'm liking the Usenet idea more and more to be honest (but I've not
> been here long enough to have a vote really!)

I appreciate that I am far more a consumer than a contributor to these 
discussions, but I doubt that I am alone in being someone who would 
probably fail to motivate myself to continue to follow gopher 
developments if all discussion shifted to Usenet. The reason for this is 
simply that it has been over a decade since I last read Usenet on a 
regular basis and it seems to me that the very low volumes (but high 
quality, I should add!) of conversations that take place here are much 
more suited to a mailing list that NNP in these days where few of us are 
subscribed to a dozen-or-so newsgroups. I like the fact that I 
occasionally get a few emails which are easy to read as I try to keep 
from drowning in my mailbox.

I’d therefore very much hope that we can continue some form or 
mailing-list, somewhere or other but, of course, there is nothing to 
stop the regular contributors from migrating away to the endless world 
of flame wars and spam if that is what they prefer[*]!

[* No idea if that still goes on these days: it’s been that long!!]

Best wishes,

Jacob