On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
(
http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/). I
don't recall why I
initially started running it; the most plausible reason I can think of
offhand is to shut up people who were whining about having to
(horrors!) use something other than a Web browser to look at my stuff.
I've been using a web browser to transfer files from anonymous FTP sites
for years, as have many others. Why didn't they just use an ftp:// URL?
gopher://
Heh. I maintain a gopher mirror of the Interactive Fiction Archive. See
gopher://gopher.feedle.net/
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?