[gopher] Gopher+ Clarification

[Timm Murray <tmurray-gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From the Gopher+ document:

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A lot of folks need ability to retrieve and display
pictures, but there is no real consensus on ONE format
for these pictures.  We don't want to define a type
character for every oddball  picture type.  Gopher+
handles Pictures, Movies, and Sounds  by defining
three item types: ":" for bitmap images, ";" for
movies, and "<" for sounds (originally I, M, and S
were suggested, but they  were informally in use in
other ways; the only thing magic   about ":", ";", and
"<", is that they are the first  characters after '9')
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When I first read this, I had thought the ':' type was specifically 
refering to bitmap images of the .BMP veriety.  In other words, the 
raw, uncompressed image data.  But on re-reading it, it seems that 
it's actually implying a deprecation of the  'g' and 'I' types 
("We don't want to define a type character for every oddball picture 
type.") and using only ':' for images, compressed or not, and letting 
the MIME type be more specific.

This seems like a much saner way to go about it.  Is this the correct 
interpretation of the above?