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Avery M. wrote: > Is this part of the Gopher standard or did you invent it just now? >

Invented. The document referenced is a proposal. A few comments about the referenced document...

The inability to embed links into a document is not the fault of the protocol, but a fact of that document's format. One can easily serve a Hypertext document on a Gopher site and links will work just fine.

Also, Gopher *can* "associate a freeform label directly with a file"; this is done in the menu.

There's also a standard mechanism to identify attributes of Gopher items using Gopher+, e.g., +INFO, +ADMIN, +ABSTRACT blocks, effectively making the proposal unnecessary.