Mercury

[Phil Leblanc]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:50 AM julienXX <julien at sideburns.eu> wrote:
>
> What's wrong with gopher, http 0.9 or 1.0 if you don't want encryption?
>

I guess one could also ask "What's wrong with https if you want
encryption?"  -- and the answer could be the same :-)

The best real answer has been provided by Solderpunk:here:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cornedbeef/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi

It applies as well to Gemini with or without TLS.

Phil