Is it _really_ needed? No, but for a different reason. I wanted
this for end users who want to have pointers to finger servers.
Setting up more servers (finger gateways) is anti-scalable and
doubles the load on the net. I'd much prefer the gopher hack to
that.
But yes, ease of use is the only actual reason for it.
-reed
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