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JumpJet Mailbox wrote: > In my surfing I have noticed that not all Gopher Server Administrators > are mapping all Item Types in their servers. Every file extension on > their server should be EXPLICITLY mapped to an Item Type. Below are > the standard Item Types understood by most Gopher Clients: [snip] > A concientious administrator should also include a listing of what they > have mapped on their server.

Not all file systems make consistent (or indeed any) use of extensions. Take, for example, HFS from Mac, UFS or Ext2 from Unix/Linux based systems. Those file systems are completely agnostic to file extensions; they don't mean anything to anyone except the operator or user. The same is true with most URLs. Extensions don't matter. What gets spit out isn't always the same format as the input. (-:

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