-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 21:41, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. > > Ron Johnson writes: >> That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer who use gopher, the >> fewer who create gopher "pages", thus the narrower the range of gopher's >> usefulness. > > *Sigh". _For some purposes_ the fact that almost no one uses it can be an > advantage. A particular group of people may not care that few others > create pages.
OK, yes, for some purposes, where "some" is an extraordinarily broad and ambiguous term which could mean anything. Teenagers, terrorists and retro-computer (especially early-90s) fanatics are the first groups that crossed my mind as to who could profit from a faded-to-insignificance protocol. Does Google even index gopher sites? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIVKaMS9HxQb37XmcRAl2TAJ9sF/CqLpGdr8IUovt861YB9yIqmACeJ0J7 fdB9pV0XivZm8oXL0kcXliA= =dlpj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
