Subj : A gopherhole's special feature
To   : Arelor
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Sep 13 2021 20:06:00

Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 13.09.21 - 03:27, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

 >> For the Gopher/echomail system, the blogger could make the
 >> primary article available via gopher, but steer replies/
 >> comments to a sister-echo.   That way, gopher technology
 >> gets greater awareness and echomail gets new converts.

 A> A gopherhole's special feature is that it is reachable.

Yes, direct. One to one. No unusual http requirements.  
Understood.  But even if the gopher articles could be read  
offline, that would be good.

 A> A post on a gopher server won't get autopurged by a BBS
 A> after X time has passed. Also, it won't be filtered by a
 A> sysop because you were put in a blacklist because you think
 A> his favourite brand of soda is not that good.

Yes.. It's truly like a blog, an independent publishing medium.  
 But why not, in addition to the gopherblog, have the posts  
distributed over FTN technology to reach armchair offline  
readers using their favourite program?

 A> A Gophersite could support a comment engine. It is just
 A> that gopher operators prefer not to have those.

Ah.. good to hear that a comments option is possible.  Too bad  
that most operators don't care for it. If it's anything like  
the non-threaded endless toilet-roll style likened to  
Wordpress' comments or FB comments system, then I don't blame  
them.



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