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----- Original Message ----- From: "smoerk" <smoerk@gmx.de> To: <gopher@complete.org> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:12 Subject: [gopher] Re: PyGopherd 2.0 released; Gopher and WAP

>Brian wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:15:47PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> >>>Additionally, there is the debut of a major new feature: the WAP protocol. >> >> >> So do you all think this could be the niche that will bring gopher >> back to popularity again?. > >nothing can bring gopher to popularity again.

"The person who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the person doing it." Some of us are DOS fans who like the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple, Stupid). The text based design of Gopher is simple and gets the point across. Uncluttered and fast. As net congestion grows, there may be more demand for simplicity.