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- This is the University of Minnesota Computer & Information Services
- Gopher Consultant service.
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- gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of
- the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.)
- Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State.
- 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches
- or delivers documents for office staff. 4. (computer tech.)
- Software following a simple protocol for tunneling through a TCP/IP
- internet.
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- If you have questions or comments, you can get in contact with the
- Gopher development team by sending e-mail to:
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- gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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- If you are interested in news about new gopher servers and software
- you can subscribe to the gopher-news mailing list by sending e-mail
- to:
- gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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- If you find gopher-news too technical or too high-volume, you might
- try subscribing to another mailing list called gopher-announce; send
- your request to:
- gopher-announce-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu.
- Gopher-announce is moderated (hence low-volume), and only for
- announcements of new gopher software or services.
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- There is also a USENET news discussion group called
- comp.infosystems.gopher
- where Internet Gopher is discussed.
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- If you want to get the most recent releases of the gopher software,
- you can get these via anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu in
- the /pub/gopher directory.
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