I don't know much about the benefits of one protocal over another, but I have a soft spot for gopher, having used it predominantly through college.
/me does a gopher-roques dance. --PC On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:28, Beaker (aka Jeff W) wrote: > Recently freeshell.org resurrected their gopherspace > (gopher://gopher.freeshell.org) with the idea that not only would it > help slow the protocol's demise, gopher's uniformity and "starkness" > make it unappealing to the various commercial interests that some feel > have monopolized the http protocol. I like gopher's intrinsic emphasis > of content over presentation and am trying to think of useful and > interesting ways I could add to the existing gopherspace (which is very > small apparently); maybe a gopher://euglug.org ? > > BTW, the gopher protocol has some support in current browsers. By far > the best appears to be Lynx and Mosaic. Sadly, gopher support is broken > in Mozilla and its derivatives (except possibly Navigator), and > non-existent in Dillo, Konqerour, and Links. Oddly, IE still support it. > There are various console-based gopher clients, the primary one being > from U of MN, the creators of the protocol. > > And for all you activists: http://www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto > > -beaker > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- P Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
