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sovietassassin@gmail.com wrote: > im looking to get into gophering and would like to setup my own > gopherd. the two main gopherd's ive found are pygopherd and the umn > gopherd and im currently running the umn gopherd.

Please read this piece of warning concerning UMN gopherd:

http://lists.complete.org/gopher@complete.org/2004/03/msg00007.html.gz Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopherd or pygopherd? From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:03:11 -0600

Gopherd is no longer maintained. Security holes were being found in it on a regular basis, and nobody really had the inclination to give it a thorough security audit given the fact that more advanced Gopher servers existed. Therefore, I would strongly urge you *NOT* to deploy UMN Gopherd.

In fact, UMN gopherd was dropped from the current Debian stable (Sarge, 3.1) in favor of Pygopherd.

> is there a benefit > or drawback to eithor and which one is recomended for me to run for a > low usage mid priority daemon, well, unless there are other daemons > someone would recomend.

Myself I'm running Cameron Kaiser's Bucktooth: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck/

and am happy about it. Please don't ask which one is better, I'm sure you'll be perfectly at ease with Pygopherd. I only chose Bucktooth becase Pygopherd would not run with the old python that used to be shipped with the previous Debian stable, Woody (3.0), that I was using when I first deployed my gopher server.

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