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    From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sat Sep 16 11:53:59 2023
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    Am 16.09.2023 um 03:15:40 Uhr schrieb The Doctor:

    Gopher was a Uminn fee IIRC.

    How did they enforce that?

    There were two references cited on the Wikipedia page: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.gopher/c/Qh9ip4gRjco/m/kaqs7s-LBosJ
    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.radio.shortwave/c/L4hDGLQb9TQ/m/v96b56acXnMJ

    The fee announced in February 1993 would have been collected for the use
    of the gopher server at University of Minnesota, not the client. But users
    were concerned that the University would attempt to collect the fee for operating gopher servers on other networks. The University later changed
    its mind, re-licensing under GNU public license in September 2000.

    CERN didn't charge a fee to use http, but http wasn't an indexing scheme
    and didn't enforce a logical hierarchy of documents. Gopher has real
    advantages in logically organizing information but it's because
    librarians and other information specialists were trying to think
    logically about presenting the document hierarchy tree, something all
    too often lacking at a Web site.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Sat Sep 16 12:49:57 2023
    In article <ue450n$3qcga$[email protected]>,
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    Am 16.09.2023 um 03:15:40 Uhr schrieb The Doctor:

    Gopher was a Uminn fee IIRC.

    How did they enforce that?

    There were two references cited on the Wikipedia page: >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.gopher/c/Qh9ip4gRjco/m/kaqs7s-LBosJ
    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.radio.shortwave/c/L4hDGLQb9TQ/m/v96b56acXnMJ

    The fee announced in February 1993 would have been collected for the use
    of the gopher server at University of Minnesota, not the client. But users >were concerned that the University would attempt to collect the fee for >operating gopher servers on other networks. The University later changed
    its mind, re-licensing under GNU public license in September 2000.

    CERN didn't charge a fee to use http, but http wasn't an indexing scheme
    and didn't enforce a logical hierarchy of documents. Gopher has real >advantages in logically organizing information but it's because
    librarians and other information specialists were trying to think
    logically about presenting the document hierarchy tree, something all
    too often lacking at a Web site.

    Such are facts.
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