Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?
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On 06/14/08 21:41, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
>> The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage.
>
> Ron Johnson writes:
>> 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.
>
> *Sigh". _For some purposes_ the fact that almost no one uses it can be an
> advantage. A particular group of people may not care that few others
> create pages.
OK, yes, for some purposes, where "some" is an extraordinarily broad
and ambiguous term which could mean anything.
Teenagers, terrorists and retro-computer (especially early-90s)
fanatics are the first groups that crossed my mind as to who could
profit from a faded-to-insignificance protocol.
Does Google even index gopher sites?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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