This reminds me of Posterous, a now defunct service that let you post to a BLOG just by sending an email. I'll be sure to check out your Gopher!
Never heard about it before. It does sound similar indeed ! I'm curious to know what security mechanism they used to make sure only the author would submit new posts. I'll check it out, thanks !
It was cool to use, but it is no longer in service. I still have the old emails I sent! For them, they had an email address (post@posterous.com) that you would send the BLOG post. I'm guessing they checked the FROM to know whicih BLOG to update!
That's a great idea; tempted to just go and implement this outright in my hole! Would definitely lower the activation energy for posting...
I have years of your life to catch up on ! Neat looking back at ideas for scribo at different times like gopher://phlog.z3bra.org/0/idea-multipartmixed-support-for-scribo.txt
I was briefly confused by your html mailto item but no longer
Yeah unfortunately I never implemented that feature ^^ It would require to parse the email body and add much more logic into Scribo itself, making it very complex and subject to bugs. I like it the way it is now to be fair ^^
What's confusing about the mailto item ?
My usual phetch doesn't have an XDG web browser set or something I think? Unless I misunderstood that error, hang on. Specifically in phetch, I tried following link 1. (phlog@z3bra.org) and I get the error, "invalid port value".
Oh right, then it's probably just the link format which is misinterpreted by your client. mailto links don't include the usual "://", which might prevent them from opening correctly on some clients.
I love this idea. I'll have to check it out!
I'd love to hear back from you if you ever use it !
Welcome to the gopher renaissance
Some useful gopher services:
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gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongustagopher://gopher.black/1/moku-ponagopher://gopher.clubgopher://tildeverse.orgWeb proxies: