-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIVKQcS9HxQb37XmcRAmYRAJ4zjWpk8TnYGTzf/BHXoDqIbgkKagCgonGM cNZ7n7AhORaEmjY5W2fuBzI= =yrZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
