Re: OT: rude behaviour
Sean Conner <sean-/[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:43:01 -0500
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It was thus said that the Great cat K. once stated: > well you've got me there, you're right, that's what you did ask and I > misunderstood. > curse my optimism for thinking we were for a second talking about what > software does instead of what it does not do. So, why should a gopher client support ANSI terminal codes? Yes, there are some gopher clients that do. Some do not. Some use some very old clients out there because gopher is *much* easier to support than HTTP or even Gemini. And it wouldn't surprise me if people out there are using non-ANSI escape code terminals. There have been proposals to "fix" gopher. I proposed one to add a redirection notice to gopher: gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/09/30.4 I don't think it got much uptake. There are people who think gopher should be run over TLS and do so, but personally, I think such people are misguided about the issues it can cause. gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/03/31.1 > but now we're dancing around the real point: that there's no discussion > about Gopher on the Gopher mailing list. there wasn't for months. Maybe there isn't much to say about gopher at this time. What should we talk about? > how little the Gopher mailing list actually cares about Gopher, a protocol > that despite the contrary wheezing I hear from the infirmary, I do deeply > care about. So why do you care? If you already talked about it, post the links. Get a constructive conversation started, instead of insulting us with trash like: > I look forward to having the same conversation when you all rise from your > tombs next year. BE the community you want instead of tasking US with enteriaining you. -spc