[gopher] Re: Server Contact Information

["Aaron J. Angel" <thatoneguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avery M. wrote:
> Is this part of the Gopher standard or did you invent it just now?
>   

Invented.  The document referenced is a proposal.  A few comments about 
the referenced document...

The inability to embed links into a document is not the fault of the 
protocol, but a fact of that document's format.  One can easily serve a 
Hypertext document on a Gopher site and links will work just fine.

Also, Gopher *can* "associate a freeform label directly with a file"; 
this is done in the menu.

There's also a standard mechanism to identify attributes of Gopher items 
using Gopher+, e.g., +INFO, +ADMIN, +ABSTRACT blocks, effectively making 
the proposal unnecessary.