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The complete archives of the Techdiver mailing list can now be
retrieved using Gopher, in a manner similar to retrieval using
the mail server.

To read Techdiver using Gopher, connect to the Opal Gopher at
fulton.opal.com port 70, and go into the Techdiver Mailinglist
Archive directory.  From there, you can query the archive by
subject, or by author.  Enjoy.

For people who are not familiar with Gopher, it is a world-wide
information retrieval service.  Like FTP, which allows you to
retrieve files by name, Gopher allows you to retrieve information
based on the content of the material, without knowing the names
of the files it is in, or even the names of the machines it is
on.  Information retrieved from Gopher may have come from one
or many machines all over the Internet.  A Gopher database may
have links into other Gopher databases meaning that when you
locate information in one place, you will see references to
similar items in other places, and you can access that information
simply by clicking on the reference.

To access Gopher, you need a Gopher client program.  Gopher
clients are available for many different types of system (UNIX,
Windows, OS/2, Next, Mac, VMS, etc) by anon-FTP from
boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher.  I highly recommend the xgopher
client for X windows: it's `way cool'.

If you think of ways that the Opal Gopher Techdiver Archive could
be improved, please let me know.

	-jr

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