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> I wish gopher would permit people to send data back to the server. 
> One reason why I think the web exploded in #'s of users is that there 
> was two way interaction (through html forms). Amazingly enough, email 
> has that very same quality - and look how popular *it* is. Gopher is 
> a one-way street, more or less. For those who'd disagree, sending 
> requests could conceivably be sending data, but there's too little 
> flexibility in the kinds of data to send back.

What about ASK forms? Still primitive but the functionality does exist.

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