From: gopher-bounce@complete.org
       Date: Mon Apr 16 07:51:39 2007
       Subject: [gopher] Re: Mozilla bugs about Gopher, and a dangerous one
       
       On 4/11/07, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wrote:
       > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351748
       > > (Remove UI for Gopher proxy settings)
       >
       > Wow, this sucks. Everyone get on this and complain. It's the slippery
       > slope to removal. Thanks for pointing it out, and kudos to Aaron for
       > jumping on it also.
       
       Well,  I finally wrote a complaint. Hope this is going to calm down a
       little bit the will of the reporter to remove the UI for Gopher proxy
       settings.
       
       > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158888
       > > (implement better handling for gopher on non default ports)
       >
       > Voted. I'm not even sure why they did this that way.
       
       I recently found this: gopher://sipb.mit.edu/1B:Internet%20whois%20servers
       The result with Mozilla derivatives is bad :(
       
       > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273459
       > > (most gopher-*.gif images are unused)
       >
       > Voted. This looks like a good solution to implement.
       
       I had a look to these gifs (C:\Program
       Files\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\res\html under my Windows Millennium).
       They're pretty nice. It would be nice if they were used, indeed.
       
       > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202196
       > > (wrong protocol for host names containing "gopher")
       >
       > I think I agree with the naysayers on this one. Although it would be nice
       > to just type in gopher.floodgap.com and not get helsinki's *web* server,
       > I think this is a case where the solution will be worse than the problem for
       > many users.
       
       Probably. I had hesitated a lot, but when I saw that Lynx was doing
       this guess quite efficiently, I voted: how many websites begin with
       http://gopher... ? But anyway, this probably is not so important and
       indeed some newbies could whine if the bug was corrected.
       
       > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326034
       > > (Gopher module shouldn't try to interpret text into URLs)
       >
       > This is mine! Vote for it! Aaron's the only other communicator recently of
       > note.
       
       Voted :)
       
       > > Feel free to correct my English ;)
       >
       > I'm sure it's better than me speaking your native language
       
       Bleh. I was expecting a comment like "oh, why do you say that? Your
       English is better than perfect ".
       :-p
       
       > (what is it, anyway?).
       
       Hmmm. Do you remember that you have a file in a foreign language
       you'll put on floodgap in one of your next lives? ;)
       
       > Thanks very much for posting these. I've got the relevant ones on my
       > cc list now.
       
       I think that given the opposition the bug will remain open for quite a
       while. Since the assignee is also the reporter, I don't think he will
       easily accept a wontfix, but anyway, now he's under surveillance :)
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