[gopher] Re: basic newb info

[Rich Roberts <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Aug 2005, at 03:38, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> Sometimes, the simplest wikis are the most fun to set up :)
>> TwikiWiki, for instance, is the Emacs of the wiki world, and (IMO)
>> just as cumbersome (I'm a vi guy, so I can say things like that).
>>
>> It would seem to me that any wiki that's set up should be done so in
>> the same spirit as gopher itself:  Not a lot of bells and whistles,
>> but easy to use and administer.
>>
>
> I repeat, why isn't some clever fellow working on a gopher-hostable  
> wiki?
> It could be updated either by telnetting to a port, or accepting E- 
> mail
> (using a keyphrase to trivially filter spam), or some other clever  
> way.
> I might even work on one myself except that I have to finish  
> Veronica-2's
> upgrades and the "secret project" first.
>

Everyone loves teh sekrit projects ;)

Is there an authentication layer in the gopher protocol?
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most wiki's flat file based  
rather than
db driven?

If we used the former, surely some clever beggar (not me, cause i  
baint no good
  at this coding lark) could either...

Find/ write a script that would turn each flat file into a gopher  
parseable page, and runs each time something is modified...
Do something else (there were no two options after all. damn kids.  
stole my coffee. )


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