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?