<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I approve of this attitude and philosophy. Thank you, Floodgap Admin Cameron Kaiser, for your respect and restraint.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. sorry about the crappy email formatting. it's difficult to write perfectly concise emails with a tiny android device over crappy free wifi. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> <br>Date:01/16/2015 11:25 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: gopher-project@lists.alioth.debian.org <br>Subject: Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project" <br><br>Although I respect (and in some ways wouldn't mind) a central planning<br>process for Gopher, I think that makes what is for many of us a fun sideline<br>unnecessarily bureaucratic. Many sites here do have at least some of what<br>you propose already as resources for new users, although candidly much of<br>the denizens of gopherspace were already using it or rediscovered it rather<br>than new people who had never experienced it before.<br><br>I certainly don't mind someone (you?) constructing a resource with your<br>proposed services of sufficient quality; I just don't want it to be<br>constraining. People ask me personally about "changes I would authorize<br>to gopherspace" presumably because Floodgap is a server of long standing,<br>but I don't want to be the benevolent dictator of Gopher by default, and<br>in that vein I would only endorse something voluntary that recognizes the<br>community will maintain itself best through an organic process.<br><br>-- <br>------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --<br> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com<br>-- Remember, kids: for great justice take off every zig! ----------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gopher-Project mailing list<br>Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org<br>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project<br></body>