Re: G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML

> On Apr 2, 2021, at 10:45 PM, barana . <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Seriously, you all behave like you havent seen an april fools day joke.(afore mentioned humour)
> From: John Goerzen <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2021 11:44 AM
> To: Ivan J. <parazyd-/[email protected]>
> Cc: Chris Brannon <chris-zYV+vkQTyN5VVL4EKv/[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML
>  
> On Fri, Apr 02 2021, Ivan J. wrote:
> 
> > Sad to say, you also seem to be ignoring all the actual effort
> > Bitreich is doing to help and improve Gopher and its adoption.
> 
> Spreading racism helps nothing and nobody.  It has no place in 
> this community.
> 
> Writing Gopher patches to software is great, but that doesn't mean 
> that racism and sexism must accompany it.
> 
> I want to assure everyone, lurkers and regular participants, that 
> Christoph Lohmann does not speak for this community, that racism 
> has no place in this or any other Open Source community, and that 
> you are not alone in your feeling of revulsion at it.
> 
> I have no respect for racists and no desire to work with people 
> that seek to use technical lists to spread racism, regardless of 
> what their Free Software activities are.  Free Software is about 
> treating people ethically and making the world a better place, and 
> racism and sexism are antithetical to these aims.
> 
> - John
> 
1.  Thanks John.  And that’s the spirit of free software.  Collaboration shouldn’t care about who or what you are.  It’s a social activity.  And while I don’t contribute much outside of occasionally maintaining a small Gopher hole on SDF and browsing Floodgap, it’s still nostalgic for me.

2.  Barana:  He can say whatever he darn well pleases on his own servers.  But subjugating an unwilling audience to “humor” like this after his previous thread is just tone deaf.  A good comic knows how to read the room.

Also,  freedom of speech isn’t without freedom of consequence, after all.  This was his consequence.  I was just providing an explanation why some people in some circles might be sensitive towards the topic.  Heck, if I wanted to be truly mad about it, I would be mad at the male-oriented metadata in this “joke”.  But, as I may be one of the few women here, it’s just a part of where I am.

3.  Chris Brannon:  Thanks.  Yeah, I’ve been here awhile but don’t say much.  And old protocols (and systems) have been a lifelong interest of mine.  :) I don’t pay too much to Bitreich but he seems...a little different.  But, it takes all kinds of people to make a community.