[gopher] What's my IP address in gopher!

[Kim Holviala]

Okay okay, you can stop now. I changed my "What's my IP address in gopher" to a type 0 text application. By popular demand I also IPv6 enabled it.

Now can we start discussing the really important things, like why top-posting is good?

- Kim



On May 7, 2012, at 20:03 , Dennis Schulmeister wrote:

> On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:03:34 -0700
> "Bradley D. Thornton" <Bradley at NorthTech.US> wrote:
> 
>> You're pontificating rant about relevance and obsolescence from your
>> own, narrow, personal perspective is ridiculous and foolish. People will
>> continue to use the tools that are relevant to accomplishing the tasks
>> at hand, regardless of your lack of intelligent input and useless
>> negativity.
> 
> Apart from you drifting into a personal level trying to insult you
> didn't get the point of my post. I agree that people will always use
> the tools which seem fit to the task at hand even if those tools are
> regarded as outdated by others. So the claim that gopher is obsolete
> might be questioned from that point of view.
> 
> But that's not the point of my post. The point is that the OP's claim
> is wrong. That is, it's not the i item type at all why gopher has no
> relevance on smart phones. And abolishing it won't help the situation
> either. It is just that gopher's heyday is long but over and it will
> probably never come back again.
> 
> Now call that a foolish and unintelligent opinion if you want.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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