Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:42:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by glockenspiel.complete.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eu8ui-00017K-He for gopher@complete.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:42:54 -0600 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.1]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k04DgZT0013898 for <gopher@complete.org>; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:42:35 GMT Received: (from newmanbe@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id k04DgYZ6024965 for gopher@complete.org; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:42:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:42:34 -0600 From: Benn Newman <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org> To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+ Message-ID: <20060104134234.GA21472@SDF.LONESTAR.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> <20060104043904.GA12981@katherina.lan.complete.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060104043904.GA12981@katherina.lan.complete.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Status: No (score 0.2): AWL=0.111, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:42:54 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 1235 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.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 Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:39:04PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > 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) If I rememer the Gopher+ spec correctly, it says that the information should be stadardised. Since it is a plain text file, you can also display it as that, though I do see your point. -- Benn Newman | newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org | gopher://igneous-rock.homeunix.net Wisconsin Association of Gopher Operators Learn about the Gopher Project: http://gopher.quux.org/Software/Gopher -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --

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