From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: BRING THE GOPHER BACK
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:56:46 -0800 (PST)
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> There is a quite important issue on this, keeping gopher in Mozilla
> core. Please see gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/keepcore .
> Cameron was working on a JavaScript implementation of Gopher protocol
> support (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195 for
> more information) because it's more or less the implicit deal.

Except that I did indeed hit the wall that Christian B did talk about --
I'm going to have to start from scratch with the 1.8.* sources and I
know even less about those. If someone has more experience with Mozilla
XPCOM than I do, I would freely relinquish the project!

> People look at this newsgroup and think that Gopher is dead and
> buried. Let's show that they're wrong.

I think John's concern is well-taken, although I'll make a better
effort of posting announcements to both places.

Like I said previously, the statistics question is being actively worked
on. I want a little more acquisition time before I'm ready to release
what I have.

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