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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by astrodust on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:37PM (#14198802)
What about Gopher? Will nobody think of Gopher?
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by badsectoracula on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:57PM (#14198966)
Actually i thought about Gopher (i even have my own client - http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/ - although it only does text) since it basically behaves as FTP++ with abstract names (sadly most modern gopherholes treat it as hypertext lite by abusing the information nodes).

Gopher generally avoids most of FTP's pitfalls and it is dead easy to implement.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by dmoreno on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:13AM (#14203094)
As a side note, there was a nice podcast about Gopher a few days ago at Techstuff [1]

[1] http://shows.howstuffworks.com/techstuff/what-was-gopher.htm

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @08:08PM (#14199409)
At least there's still Jigdo.
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