Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

["Peter Tynan" <peter.tynan@gmail.com>]

2008/6/14 Koh Choon Lin <singaporeundead@gmail.com>:
>
> Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
>

I'd suggest reading
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/relevance.txt for a full answer.

I think "advantage" is probably the wrong word it's an alternative, an
example of the type of feature that makes it distinct from other
protocols would be it's inherently structured menu driven hierarchical
nature, then there is the fact that it doesn't need much system power
to run - either from the server or from the client  and it is I
believe somewhat less of a bandwidth hog than http.

Peter