[gopher] Re: Fate of the Protocol (was Re: Gopherness)

["Matthew Holevinski" <eylusion@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wait I'm sorry, I hate to keep sending emails :)
What about the electronic library movements? I figure that is something
gopher could help with, veronica for indexing of books or what not, and then
downloading the texts from gopher servers would be pretty slick in my book
not that I like reading full texts from a computer screen as I don't suppose
many do, but it seems to me that is a viable function gopher could serve.

Matt

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Holevinski <eylusion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jay, I am realistic on this topic, I really am, your right it'll never regain
> a foothold, but while I'm still around I'll use it, if I can.
>
> Matt
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Avery M. <averym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jay Nemrow <jnemrow@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I can't see your vision ever happening.  Gopher is essentially dead to
>>> nearly everyone, if they even knew it ever lived.  Apparently, we just
>>> never attended the funeral.
>>
>> This is overly pessimistic. I maintain a gopher because I like the
>> undemanding nature of the protocol. Unlike HTTP, whose cognitive style
>> rewards distraction and skimming, Gopher gives you a decidedly
>> un-hyper text file and then it's done. I believe other people should
>> maintain gophers as well, and to that end this list is useful.
>>
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