[gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs

[John Burnett <john_burnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:09:23PM -0500, John Burnett wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:07:01AM -0500, Chris wrote:
> > Are we back on this non port 70 thing again?
> > My 2 cents
> > All Gopher clients need to be able to use ports other than port 70
> > all old ones did or they werent able to use the search engines, not to 
> > mention the rest of the servers not on 70, but we went over this already.
> > The protocol allows and promotes non 70, if the client cant it is "bad"
> > or limited at the least, use a better one so that you might be able to use 
> > gopherspace fully.
> > In other countries they don't have linux, freebsd and the other free O.S's?
> > I say we move em all off port 70 and keep them all guessin ;)
> > Chris
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:10:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > JumpJet Mailbox <jumpjetinfo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Testing indicates that software expecting to see gopher on Port 70 will 
> > > NOT translate to another port.  
> > >    
> > >   BROWSERS:
> > >    
> > >   Bobcat for DOS will fail
> > >   Lynx for DOS will fail
> > >   Internet Explorer will NOT see your server, and will either give an 
> > > error message (if attaching to a sub-directory) or crash the browser if 
> > > connecting to the root directory. 
> > >   Older versions of Lynx for Windows will fail [but upgrading to the 
> > > newest version will work].
> > >   Older versions of Firefox will fail [but upgrading to the newest 
> > > version will work].
> > >   The MSNTV (WebTV) browser will fail.
> > >    
> > >   GOPHER CLIENTS:
> > >    
> > >   Documentation indicates the Acorn Risk OS client will fail.
> > >   Documentation indicates the Atari MiNT client will fail.
> > >   Documentation indicates the IBM CMS mainframe clients will fail.
> > >   Documentation indicates the VAX mainframe client will fail.
> > >   The MOO object will fail
> > >   The AmigaOS client will fail.
> > >   The OS/2 client will fail.
> > >   All the Windows 3.1 clients tested so far have failed.
> > >   All the DOS clients tested so far have failed.
 
       snip.....................   
 
 
       The site works fine with forg. The only browser that I have
       had problems with is w3m.
 
       Speaking of forg, anybody know how to adjust the text size?

       Thanks,
       John Burnett
       Sun Jul 29 21:09:08 CDT 2007