[gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+

[Benn Newman <newmanbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:39:04PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0600, Benn Newman wrote:
> > The nice thing abous Gopher+ blocks is that they can hold arbitrary
> > information. Do we want to limit ourselves like this?
> 
> That is also a curse, because how do we display arbitrary information?
> (Especially in something that was to be a network-wide filesystem)
If I rememer the Gopher+ spec correctly, it says that the information
should be stadardised. Since it is a plain text file, you can also
display it as that, though I do see your point.
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