http and ftp versus news and mailto

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Ambush Commander
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http and ftp versus news and mailto

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In one word, how would you sum up the difference between HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER and FTP versus NEWS, NNTP, MAILTO and IRC? Functionally speaking, it makes sense to request an image file from the former, but not the latter.
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I can't think of anything that would keep Gopher on the HTTP side of the fence.
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It serves documents, I can get images from it, my web browser supports it natively (although IE does not). Ex. gopher://gopher.quux.org/g/Software/Gopher/screenshots/lynx.gif
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