Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:39:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from mo-69-69-114-6.sta.sprint-hsd.net ([69.69.114.6] helo=erwin.lan.complete.org) by glockenspiel.complete.org with esmtps (with TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (TLS peer CN erwin.complete.org, certificate verified) (Exim 4.50) id 1Eu0Qc-0003c7-8c; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:39:15 -0600 Received: from katherina.lan.complete.org ([10.200.0.4]) by erwin.lan.complete.org with esmtps (with TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (No TLS peer certificate) (Exim 4.50) id 1Eu0QS-00054c-OD; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:39:04 -0600 Received: from jgoerzen by katherina.lan.complete.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <jgoerzen@katherina.lan.complete.org>) id 1Eu0QS-0003PC-Jr; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:39:04 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:39:04 -0600 From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+ Message-ID: <20060104043904.GA12981@katherina.lan.complete.org> References: <20051231155642.GA9489@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20051231164643.GB28740@katherina.lan.complete.org> <20051231173023.GA2684@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <op.s2pefzakvbderv@wybotnnas01-pool0-a14.wybotn.tds.net> <20060101165144.GA2143@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <op.s2qt03v8vbderv@wybotnnas01-pool0-a61.wybotn.tds.net> <20060102150118.GA7431@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060102150118.GA7431@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Status: No (score 0.1): AWL=0.010, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:39:15 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 1226 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: jgoerzen@complete.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

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)

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