Through gopher, they will be able to obtain, at no cost, a wide range of pedagogical documents. The TESL-L listserv membership includes more than four thousand teachers in 73 countries, making it one of the largest interactive listserve forums on the Internet.
Gopher is a versatile and increasingly popular communication and research tool.
Selecting from menus, the user can traverse the network in multi-layered searches by topic for information available on different systems. Gopher requires no technical skills or special knowledge on the part of its users. Its format functions on the model of a library catalogue, permitting both general browsing and cross-referenced queries.