On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote:Koh Choon Lin writes:Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage.That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer who use gopher, the fewer who create gopher "pages", thus the narrower the range of gopher's usefulness.
Ah yes, but with so few people using Gopher, very few computer criminals will write trojans against Gopher clients.
And as Paul Cartwright said, employers who want to block the web may ignore Gopher.