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On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0600, Benn Newman wrote:
> The nice thing abous Gopher+ blocks is that they can hold arbitrary
> information. Do we want to limit ourselves like this?

That is also a curse, because how do we display arbitrary information?
(Especially in something that was to be a network-wide filesystem)

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John Goerzen
Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715