Subj : HTTP 2: whole lot of bloat bundled with more bloat
To   : August Abolins
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Sep 13 2021 03:27:08

  Re: HTTP 2: whole lot of bloat bundled with more bloat
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sun Sep 12 2021 07:54 pm

 >  A> I used to post my blog entries on Usenet to foster
 >  A> discussin back in the day, but when you are a gopher r web
 >  A> master you usually want people to check your site rather
 >  A> than just the usenet newsgroup.
 > 
 > Makes sense.  But then, if there is nothing special about the
 > site that an nntp presence can provide, then why bother going
 > to that site?
 > 
 > For the Gopher/echomail system, the blogger could make the
 > primary article available via gopher, but steer replies/
 > comments to a sister-echo.   That way, gopher technology gets
 > greater awareness and echomail gets new converts.
 > 

A gopherhole's special feature is that it is reachable.

A post on a gopher server won't get autopurged by a BBS after X time has
passed. Also, it won't be filtered by a sysop because you were put in a
blacklist because you think his favourite brand of soda is not that good.

A Gophersite could support a comment engine. It is just that gopher operators
prefer not to have those.

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