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From: "Timm Murray" <hardburn@runbox.com>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: dotGopher
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:07:15 GMT
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> I recently stumbled across the Gopher Manifesto and took a look at
> some gopherholes. I was fascinated.
> I already have HTTP and FTP running, why not add gopher?
> And now the problem began. I have no *nix machine available and
> therefore I searched for an Win32 server. I did not find one that
> worked.
>=20
> This was the birth of dotGopher.
> dotGopher is my gopher server for the .NET platform. I did not yet test
> it on Linux, but as it runs with the Mono runtime on windows I think
> it will probably do on Linux (with Mono) as well.
>=20
> If anybody is interested in dotGopher I would write a short tutorial and
> publish the source / binary.

Actually, until recently, IIS supported Gopher.  To be fair, it was hardly =
ever=20
used, and Microsoft removed it when a security bug came up.  Still, its goo=
d=20
to hear of new Gopher implementations.