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> It doesn't have to. The client just gets what it wants. The server > simply tells it what the option is and indicates a single preferred > option (the first listed one). The client can either heed or ignore > that preference.

Is there any point to this, or is it just so that it knows what to send to gopher0 clients?

I had a file in text/plain and image/gif format. The server put image/gif as preferred. The umn client just picked text/plain as preferred.