[gopher] ML moderator election

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Interesting observation on my part in Thunderbird 52.2.1:
> 
> The link above doesn't include the gopher:// protocoal designation for 
> the URI, so when clicked on, although I'm shifted to Firefox to have the 
> link served, it prepends the http:// which results in a 404 from the 
> Nginx server - if I manually prepend the gopher:// then it serves up 
> those archives just fine.
> 
> There used to be a TB plugin that enabled web browsing from withing 
> Thunderbird. I  can't remember the name of it now - Thunderbrowse or 
> something like that, not even sure if it's still around, but it sure 
> would  be nice if those Gopher protocol links resolved as such instead  
> of just the hostname with the rest of the URI.
> 
> Probably just wishful thinking on my part, huh?
> 
> Cameron, your thoughts or comments on that?

I don't use Thunderbird very much, so I don't really have a lot to add,
I'm afraid.

I'm working on a shim OverbiteWX now that we had some progress on protocol
handlers. It just forwards to Floodgap for now, but once more APIs come on
board, it can be made more configurable. Eventually the goal is to use
the TCP APIs, if/whenever those get done, but it still won't be as seamless
as OverbiteFF. :(

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