From: gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Fri Jun 1 01:03:31 2012 Subject: Re: [gopher] What's my IP address in gopher! On 6 May 2012 10:41, Dennis Schulmeister <dennis@windows3.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 5 May 2012 12:07:12 +0000 (UTC) > Denis Bernard <denis.bernard@laposte.net> wrote: > >> Do not miss the opportunity to reach the small devices computers >> area by avoiding this =93i=94 item-type! > > Now for one moment, let's get real. Gopher has been obsolete even > before this list was created. Even then it has been and it will ever be > an obsolete thing from the past tinkered with by enthusiasts, people > who run old gear just for the fun of it. As I can tell the whole gopher > community has become so small that nearly everybody who runs a server > as well as nearly every user is subscribed to this mailing list. > > So that's it. While gopher might be a good idea with regard to mobile > devices it is very unlikely that anybody will ever care. Even if the > idea of menu-based information services will be resurrected it won't be > gopher. Very likely it well be a new thing based upon a more modern > approach. Think about it. Nowadays embedded devices have more computing > power than many desktop computers from 10 years ago. So get along with > it because it's no problem of the "i" item-type at all. > > Dennis > > -- > Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany > Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Fax: +49 721/5978882 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 > Mail: dennis@windows3.de - Web/Gopher: there-is.no-ip.org > > _______________________________________________ > Gopher-Project mailing list > Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Are you on drugs?!?!?! -- = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/^\/^\ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0\----| =A0 =A0_---'---~~~~-_ =A0 =A0 ~~~|~~L~|~~~~ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(/_ =A0/~~-- =A0 =A0 =A0\~ \ =A0/ =A0/~ =A0 =A0__~\ =A0~ / =A0 ~~----, =A0 =A0\ =A0 =A0| | =A0 =A0 =A0 / =A0\ =A0 =A0/| =A0 |/ =A0 =A0 =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 =A0| | | o =A0o =A0 =A0 /~ =A0 | =A0_-~_ =A0| =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0|| =A0\ =A0/ (// )) | o =A0o =A0 =A0\\---' //_- | =A0| =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0\ // =A0 |____|\______\__\ ~ =A0 =A0 =A0| =A0 / | =A0 =A0| =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0|_ / =A0 \ _| =A0 =A0 =A0/~___| =A0/____\ _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project