<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="script-src 'self'; img-src *;"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0"></head><body><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">Hey everyone,</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  I have a question about your specific preferences on how you prefer to gopher around.</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  Do you prefer a traditional gopher client that mimics a modern Web browser, with back/forward buttons and a single page view of individual gopher menu items?</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  In the past there have been some rather interesting gopher clients which displays a tree to represent the gopher menus.  There's also hybrid views like we see in OverbiteFF, where we can directly view gopher items by clicking a plus sign in the gopher menu.</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  So, to your preference, do you prefer seeing gopher as a world wide filing system in a unified tree view, or do you prefer gopher to mimic the look and feel of the Web?  Or would you rather slap on an oculus rift and browse in Gopher VR?</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  Unlike the Web, gopher has the advantage of being very flexible when it comes to client design.  There's even a FUSE module to mount a gopher server as a local file system.  Gopher has true structure and content separation.</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  I'm sure I brought this up before, but XMBC/Kodi uses a similar system for it's media centre.  Where structure and content is separated in the same way when developing add-ons.  I actually created a Gopher browser for XBMC/Kodi, so you can browse gopher from the comfort of your living room couch using nothing more than an IRDA remote.  Try browsing websites using a TV browser just using an IRDA remote... it's painful to navigate, and content loads ultra slow.</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;">  Anyways this email has gone on long enough, so what would your ideal gopher client of the future be like?  Browse gopher using an LCARS interface perhaps? </div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div" dir="auto" style="width:100%;background:"#ffffff"; font-size: initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif";color:#000000;"><br></div>                            <div id="blackberry_signature" name="BB10" dir="auto">     <div id="_signaturePlac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