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Cameron Kaiser wrote: > I'll just answer this with a snippet from the veronica robot's log today.

Thank you Cameron and Chris, Indeed I did not want to read "you're right" as an answer and any proof that Gopher can and does do great things are welcome. On a second thought, I remember I mostly got the "Gopher is dead" feeling browsing through the list of known "active" servers around the world: the number of those servers that did not respond or that were serving eight to ten years old data was more than disappointing to me. So, I do think now that having removed many of those forgotten servers from the Internet is a good thing to Gopher itself: would anyone take a look at what it's avaible from Gopher servers now, he would find fewer servers, all right, but he would find mostly servers that are beeing actively maintained and that might be even inspiring things to browse through. As rightly Chris pointed out, it all depends by those who decided to do run a Gopher server, that is also by me.

Thank you people, happy to be of the party! :-)

> While some of the gopher holes have already been announced here, it's nice > to see them:

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> Even with the recent mass carnage in the V-2 database, there is still > life :)

"Pauci sed boni!" (a few but good [men]!)

(Next week I'm going to quote some Sanskrit piece of poetry! :-)

-- Alessandro Selli Tel: 340.839.73.05 http://alessandro.route-add.net