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Subject: [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:24:54 -0800 (PST)
Reply-to: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx

>    I think gopher+ stinks anyway.  Instead of opening a new connection to  
> fetch the new (mostly undefined) attributes it would have been easier to  
> keep reserving extra tabspaces in the menus for simple things like  
> mimetype and filesize.  My reason for not adding gopher+ to GopherJ is  
> that it doesn't compliment the original protocol.  And as Mr. Goerzen  
> said, it's not very gophery.

I agree. I would have much preferred simply extending the tabspaces. Even
ASK-type blocks could be emulated in some fashion with this.

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