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Multiple posts of the past.
The list is dead. Long live the newsgroup.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/gemini-mailing-list-down.gmi
Maybe also worth to note, that a good part of the mailing list is archived/available via NNTP gmane.network.protocols.gemini dating back to September 2020.
-- @ 2022-01-15
Big-8 Management Board has decided by 3/3 consensus to create unmoderated newsgroup comp.infosystems.gemini
However, this is the first "Big-8" newsgroup to be created in 8 years so things might be a bit rusty.
https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007388.html
Gemini bridging past and present.
-- @ 2021-11-25
But sometimes stuff disappears because the author didn't want it up anymore and willingly took it down, which feels like a reasonable thing for authors to be able to do if they like.
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Basically a “unforgeable append-only” system is similar to a legal set of contracts and not at all like conversations in real life". He's well aware that it's impossible to guarantee all participants in a distributed system will comply with a request to delete something, but still thinks it's better to build systems which at least *try* to let us undo. I'm still not 100% sure I agree, but I totally understand and respect the perspective.
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2018-06-29_No_Take_Back
Usenet has Cancel messages that let authors cancel their previous posts, but claiming authorship is not very solid:
A cancel message requests the deletion of a specific article. The body of the Control field contains one argument, the Message-ID of the article to delete.
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According to RFC 1036 only the author of the target message or the local news administrator is allowed to send a cancel (cancels not meeting this condition are called "rogue cancels"). To verify authorization the From: line (or Sender: line, if it exists) of the cancel message must match the target article. This verification does not work well in modern day Usenet and is rarely used.
RFC 850 uses the term "local super user" instead of "local news administrator". > Son-of-RFC-1036 (this is the colloquial name of an Internet Draft written by Henry Spencer) drops the administrator's cancel altogether. The problem with the verification scheme is that the From: line is trivial to forge and with cancelbots the cancel message often arrives before the target article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_message
With OpenPGP claiming authorship should be feasible.
Actually German Wikipedia has more information on cancelling Usenet posts, e. g. also mentioning "NoCeM".
NoCeM – pronounced: [nou'si:əm] or as if No See 'Em – is a protocol enabling authenticated third parties to issue notices which site administrators can use to delete unwanted articles from their news spool, or which end users can use as a 'third-party killfile'. It is intended to eventually replace the protocol for third-party cancel messages. Other kinds of application are also possible.
https://rosalind.home.xs4all.nl/nocemreg/faq-reg.html#about-nocem
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceln
-- @ 2020-10-24
There has been some fruitful discussions about establishing a newsgroup specifically for Gemini.
I liked the idea of changing the existing group comp.infosystems.gopher to something like comp.infosystems.small(net) or just using comp.infosystems.hypertext. Well, as was noted on the mailing list a name with actually Gemini in it helps to find and adopt the group.
Free newsgroup service providers include Eternal September, Solani, and AIOE, the latter restricted to posting forty own articles per day and IP but no need to create an account. Forty is plenty, isn't it?
https://www.eternal-september.org
-- @ 2021-10-04