Gemini Newsgroup RFD

[Jonathan McHugh]

Is slowfood the samething as slowcooking?
And if I look for such recipies drinking sloe gin does it make it sloeweb?

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

October 4, 2021 9:22 AM, "defdefred" <defdefred@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Make me thinking of slowfood vs fastfood...
> So sloweb :-)
> 
> freD.
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> On Monday, October 4th, 2021 at 07:09, Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:54:39 +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote:
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>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 00:16, Plain Text text@sdfeu.org wrote:
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>>> merged group for c.i.gopher and c.i.gemini – but lacking a … name
>> 
>> "Small-web" or "small-net" are sometimes used, most often to describe a
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>> combination browser for these protocols.
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>> There's quite a bit of overlap between the communities.
>> 
>> Thanks, so true! And so I began to write an RFD document for "Small Scale
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>> Hypertext Information Systems" in the same pad (carbon copy below):
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>> https://pads.ccc.de/comp-infosystems-gemini-rfd
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>> Please, anybody feel free to edit along and/or give other input, also on
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>> the name and the byline, and the whole endeavour, of course, as I do not
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>> want to diminish the efforts already put into the first RFD process.
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>> Shall we post to news.groups to discuss this RFD along the other? Cheers
>> 
>> --- alternative/additional rfd for comp.infosystems.small ---
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>> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) This is a formal Request for Discussion
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>> (RFD) for the creation of the unmoderated newsgroup:
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>> comp.infosystems.small
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>> NEWSGROUPS LINE:
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>> comp.infosystems.small Small Scale Hypertext Information Spaces
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>> RATIONALE: comp.infosystems.small
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>> The idea for creating the newsgroup comp.infosystems.small originated
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>> while drafting an RFD for comp.infosystems.gemini as Gemini has some
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>> overlap with Gopher. Both are hypertext systems much more focussed on
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>> textual content than the World Wide Web (with its portrayed surveillance
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>> capitalism in places) and thus address similar concerns. Here a joint
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>> newsgroup for Gopher, Gemini, and similar small infosystems is proposed
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>> for the following reasons.
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>> - The existing Gopher and a future Gemini newsgroup do not seem to be or
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>> get too crowded each. A joint newsgroup would probably not drown in
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>> traffic, either.
>> - The joint newsgroup would also invite discussions of related systems or
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>> communities, e.g. individual or decentralized "small web"/"small net"
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>> instances such as personal diaries served via http(s) or any other
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>> protocol.
>> - A newsgroup not being restricted to a named protocol is thus also open
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>> for future discussions of yet unknown technological undertakings in
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>> establishing small or niche communities in information space.
>> 
>> Currently discussions about small web/net take place in weblogs, gemini
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>> logs, gopher holes, twtxt, mastodon, IRC, tilde spaces, and elsewhere.
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>> The newsgroup comp.infosystems.small could be a new common place.
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>> Oftentimes, the concept also is referred to using the mistyping term
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>> "smol" instead of "small" like in "smol net", cf. e.g. https://
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>> communitywiki.org/wiki/SmolNet
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>> Upon creating the group comp.infosystems.small, the existing
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>> comp.infosystems.gopher shall be deleted or merged into
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>> comp.infosystems.small.
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>> CHARTER: comp.infosystems.small
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>> comp.infosystems.small covers information spaces such as hypertext
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>> systems using internet protocols such as gopher, https, gemini as well as
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>> the technology and tools created by its various communities' members.
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>> Binaries should not be posted to the group.
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>> MODERATION POLICY: unmoderated