Re: Heads up

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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 20:53, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:36:00PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In conjunction with UMN Gopher's 10th birthday, I will be releasing
> > version 3.0 of UMN gopher/gopherd sometime within the next 48 hours.
>
> (In my best Mr. Burns voice.... "Excellent")
>
> > Long live Gopher!
>
> Indeed.  Thanks for version 3.0, I will check it out within the next
> few days.   I guess the question is now, "where is gopher going?"
>
> As an open question, I'd like to ask people:
>
> - What does gopher *not* do that you wish it did?  (Keeping in mind
>   that gopher is gopher, and HTTP is HTTP, so please don't say, "some
>   cookie type of ability would be nice...")

To me, Gopher seems to be a much less flexible protocol than HTTP.  However, 
this may be a hidden advantage; it stops Gopher from becoming that gigantic, 
festering pile of commercialism that the web has become.  I think the only 
thing I really don't like is that it's hard to find good content.  OK, 
quux.org has a lot of stuff, but I'd like to see more academic resources on 
Gohper.  I'd like to see more Free Software projects use Gopher.  Just more