[gopher] Re: BRING THE GOPHER BACK

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 November 2007 7:26:38 pm Stegozor wrote:
> As for the marketing, I have a quite simple proposal: let's move from
> this list to the public news:comp.infosystems.gopher newsgroup before
> it is possibly removed by the Big-8 managament board because of

Few people know about Usenet.  Many more know about email.  They are not in 
competition, and people do not move by fiat.  The Usenet group will become 
more active if people post in it.

Lots of Usenet newsgroups look dead.  comp.lang.functional, for instance.  
Yet just one mailing list for just one functional language (Haskell) has 
dozens of posts per day sometimes.  I think that lack of activity on Usenet 
is a commentary about Usenet more than anything else.  I used to participate 
in Usenet frequently, but I can't remember the last time I posted there, 
though I do use NNTP via gmane.org to track some mailing lists.

I'm glad to see you are enthusiastic about gopher!  I would suggest the "lead 
by doing" philosophy sometimes; yep, there are things to do, and perhaps 
people know about them and aren't doing things because of lack of time.  
You're welcome to pitch in, too.

-- John