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Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?



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On 06/14/08 22:01, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> 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.

[sarcasm]Because gopher's not "the web"?[/sarcasm]

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