[gopher] Re: The road ahead

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One recurring issue on the lists is about how you mix gopher links 
> with copy.  It's my impression that the standard doesn't allow the 
> info type to begin with, let alone the mixing of the two.  I would 
> like to suggest that we handle this in a more formal and fluid 
> manner. What I'd like to see done is to remove the content-length 
> restriction of each block of data, and to allow newlines so that we 
> can create paragraphs of text without requiring multiple 
> url/mimetype/language/bytesize declarations...

Do you mean in the protocol or in the gopher menu definitions?

If you mean in the menu files, bucktooth already has a streamlined format
for this that more or less groks what is and isn't text copy.

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