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On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:30:23AM -0600, Benn Newman wrote: > > In general, let me say that after implementing at least part of > > Gopher+ in PyGopherd, I've come to the conclusion that it isn't very > > "Gophery". It's rather complex in some cases and there are a lot of > > special cases. > Bah! UMN said it was Gophery, so there.

:-)

> > That said, you can probably specify a custom +VIEWS block using the > > PyGopherd general method for specifying custom Gopher+ blocks, but I > > have never tested that. > That would work if you didn't feel like changing the files size everytime > you edited it.

True. I guess I'm just lazy. Feel free to send patches ;-)

> > You could create a .admin file in the directory, I think. (Again, > > untested, but that should do the trick.) > You can, but that replaces the other information, like the last > modified date.

Hmm. Point. Patches will again be accepted ;-)

Sorry to say that, but I'm really to the point where PyGopherd does more than I need it to, and don't have a lot of time to add features that I don't need right now,

> > It does the correct thing according to gopherd(8). As far as I can > > tell, nobody actually follows what the Gopher+ chapter says on that, > I do. :) > > Johm: I don't know how we call you our leader! *sobs* ;)

Probably because you put the word "terrible" before "leader". Not that it isn't true ;-)

> (By the way, quux.org's DN seems to be broken.)

Its DN? I know that term from LDAP, but I seem to be missing something...