From: gopher-bounce@complete.org
       Date: Mon Jul 30 04:37:00 2007
       Subject: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs
       
       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@yahoo.com> 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
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