[gopher] Re: The road ahead

["Thierry B." <oulala@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:51:27AM -0500, Robert Hahn wrote:
> 
> If this is what Gopher is truly about, then maybe we're going about 
> designing clients the wrong way.
> 
> Maybe we should figure out how to mount a gopherhole as a networked 
> drive (mounted readonly) and just let people use their OS of choice 
> to browse, search, index, and open files - whatever they do with the 
> files on their own drive - other than writing - can be done on a 
> gopherdrive.
> 

        Yes, I agree.

> If that's what Gopher is *really* about.
> 
> ...and I'm really cool with that notion - it makes a far better 
> distinction from the web than many popular conceptions of what gopher 
> is...
> 

        May be we can do it with Hurd's translators ?

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