2008/6/15 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does Google even index gopher sites?
Yes, via the HTTP to Gopher proxy at http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
e.g. A search at google.com on gopher sdf happy resulted in the 8th
hit being a gopher site.
but if you want to search gopherspace you are
On Sun June 15 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
And as Paul Cartwright said, employers who want to block the web may
ignore Gopher.
[sarcasm]Because gopher's not the web?[/sarcasm]
maybe they really don't know about Gopher, so they can't block what they don't
know?? You have to remember, I was
I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2
has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are
for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because
support for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of
FireFox 3 and I
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote:
I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2
has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are
for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because
support for the gopher
in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because
support for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of
FireFox 3 and I was hoping that Debian are not going to make the same
(IMHO) mistake.
well, Debian's Iceweasel is simply a rebranded Firefox. I would be
shocked if debian put back in core functionality
was wondering what the plans are
for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because
support for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of
FireFox 3 and I was hoping that Debian are not going to make the same
(IMHO) mistake.
well, Debian's Iceweasel is simply a rebranded
Peter Tynan wrote:
I was under the impression that although Iceweasel started off as a
simple rebranding project that the maintainers had greater ambitions
and that they already made changes to the source that have nothing to
do with the branding - am I wrong?
So, let’s dig into our
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote:
Iceweasel (and FireFox) prior to version 3 despite a few bugs were
the most convenient GUI gopher browser available and the loss of
gopher support would be a big blow for gopher
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote:
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote:
Iceweasel (and FireFox) prior to version 3 despite a few bugs were
the most convenient GUI gopher browser available
On Sat June 14 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
so for me, this is an interesting situation. But I don't use
gopher. For you it must be downright annoying.
Here's how it's interesting. Firefox provided a full-blown modern
gopher browser that essentially killed the other gui gopher browsers
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If the gopher protocol still has life in it (and I gather
that it does), then the community will be better served by having
motivation to pick up development of the other browsers, or perhaps
incorporate better gopher support into the other
If the gopher protocol still has life in it (and I gather
that it does), then the community will be better served by having
motivation to pick up development of the other browsers, or perhaps
incorporate better gopher support into the other web browsers.
Just curious, what advantage does
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote:
I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2
has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are
for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because
support for the gopher
On Saturday 14 June 2008 12:43, Peter Tynan wrote:
Just to summarise the problems - Iceweasel (and FireFox) is the only
integrated GUI gopher browser, most other gopher browsers just show
the gopher menu tree and in some cases plain text documents with
Iceweasel I can view images, html
Peter writes:
I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 has
been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are for
support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because support
for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core
2008/6/14 Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Evidently the gopher-internet is not at all dead.
It's alive a kicking with active development of several gopher servers
(including pygopherd in the Debian repositories), on the client side
there is the console client under active development and as
2008/6/14 Koh Choon Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
I'd suggest reading
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/relevance.txt for a full answer.
I think advantage is probably the wrong word it's an alternative, an
example of the type
2008/6/15 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Iceweasel 3.0~rc2-1 still seems to support Gopher.
It was in the early RC's of FireFox as well, as I understand it the
final decision to pull it from FF3 was taken quite late in the day.
Peter
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Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage.
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On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote:
Koh Choon Lin writes:
Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage.
That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer who
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
On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote:
Koh Choon Lin writes:
Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage.
That's
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On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote:
Koh Choon Lin writes:
Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols?
The very fact that almost no one
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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
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