Re: Is this list still going?

On 2025-11-14, cat K. wrote:

>On 2025-11-14, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
>> On 2025-11-14, cat K. wrote:
>>
>>>> On 14 Nov 2025, at 10:38 AM, Nuno Silva
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2025-11-13, cat K. wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I maintain a Gopher presence (several if you're keeping score) but I
>>>>> wasn't on this list. I joined the list because of this topic to ask;
>>>>> why is this Gopher mailing list - ostensibly THE Gopher mailing list -
>>>>> the single worst representation of Gopher space going?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gopher is currently better represented on TikTok than this list and
>>>>> it's embarrassing. who is list for except for people who
>>>>> want-to-but-never-will use Gopher, people who used-to-but-now-don't
>>>>> use Gopher and people who just subscribe to mailing lists out of some
>>>>> bizarre tech FOMO?
>>>>> 
>>>>> this list has less traffic than your mom's OnlyFans, it's cringe.
>>>> 
>>>> Lists not having too much traffic isn't bad. It may even be good or
>>>> excellent and mean that when there *is* traffic, it's related to the
>>>> topic, and people stay subscribed because of that.
>>>> 
>>>> It's also not fair to describe this list as "people who
>>>> used-to-but-now-don't use Gopher", specs and features have been
>>>> described in this list, people who wrote clients are on this list too,
>>>> and I've already recognized names in replies to this thread from people
>>>> who do run gopherholes.
>>>> 
>>> have been, who wrote, past tense. this topic is the only traffic the
>>> list has seen since April. I get info and updates by carrier pigeon
>>> more frequently.
>>
>> Do not try to extract more meaning from grammatical aspects of the
>> English language than there is in them.
>>
>> You're basically arguing that using proper verb tenses is something
>> shameful.
>
> what specs and features could you possibly be alluding to? Gopher is
> frozen in time, Gopher+ was a pipe dream.

Ideas for adding MIME-types, and discussions about item types have
happened, there was also a draft for an updated gopher RFC, I think.

> and with regard to the English language, you're the one using words like
> "arguing" and "shameful" - I just run a Gopher server.

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Nuno Silva