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From: David Allen <s2mdalle@titan.vcu.edu>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: depressing
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:43:42PM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> Well, unless someone knows better, these hosts are now off line or responding
> improperly (confirmed with three separate checks). A data length of 0 is
> considered an improper response even if the connection was accepted. Sadly,
> all of these servers were at least connecting on the advertised port a few
> months ago.

<snip>

Well, you don't have an auto facility to grab the ADMIN info block
from servers you discover do you?  It might give you a point of
contact for later "what happened to your gopher?" spam.  :)

-- 
David Allen
http://opop.nols.com/
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