[gopher] Re: Trying to add a link to jumpjet site

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For goodness sake everyone, please do NOT misconstrue my use of MSIE in a 
software example as some kind of an endorsement!  
   
  My use of the MSIE software in the example was ONLY because most persons 
would probably be more familiar with this software than with some other more 
obscure example software I could have chosen.  Besides, although it is always 
courteous to suggest to others software that we feel to be superior, what kind 
of software a person ultimately chooses is their own business (thats what the 
word "personal" in "personal computers" is all about).  A person could access 
Gopher using Telnet for that matter, and if thats the way they want it, then 
more power to them.  
  
Dennis Schulmeister <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Hi everybody,

to my mind Chris has a point.

See, you even have to make changes to your registry in order to browse
some gopher menus with Internet Explorer. How many users can we expect
to do so? Let alone how many users still remember gopher if they know it
at all? And those who remember, how many of them really use Internet
Explorer (for browsing gopher space)?

Greetings,
Dennis


Am Donnerstag, den 01.06.2006, 14:47 -0500 schrieb Chris:
> I think I'd like to disgree and point out web browsers dont make the best 
> gopher browsers as we know. There are many many gophers _not_ on port 70 and 
> many reasons to do so. I dont feel we should make some "rule" such as this 
> (which doesn't exist now) especially on behalf of M$ IE. Gopher protocol does 
> not limit anyone to port 70 lets not try and change that.






                
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