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- From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
- Subject: Re: More people would use Gopher if...
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:29:05 GMT
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- Richard W. Wiggins (rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <92321.102821NLAFLAMM@vma.cc.nd.edu> Nick Laflamme writes:
- : > For what it's worth, the problem with "gopher" may be simply that it's
- : > too cute and meaningless.
- :
- : Nick, you raise some interesting points, but Gopher is far too widespread
- : and entrenched, and too known by that name already. The name's a done deal.
- : In any case, as we evangelize our campus about this neat new tool, we have
- : not encountered a single soul who resists the name. The sense of a "go fer"
- : for data is well accepted. And giving a little credit to the Golden
- : Gophers for their fine contribution to the net shouldn't bother anyone.
- :
- : The old joke is that if IBM named a light bulb, they'd call it a
- : "Multipurpose Incandescent Source System Facility." We have a perfectly
- : fine two syllable word for this tool. Let's worry about how to improve
- : Gopher, not how to rename it.
- :
- : /Rich Wiggns, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U
-
- Well, If people refuse to use gopher only because they do not like the name,
- then they are pretty shallow, since they are ignoring the obvious power of
- a GOPHER server only because of a name. That is pretty pathetic, and I am
- glad we are not associated with such people.
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- Gopher!
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- Joe
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