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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214401.10120@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:44:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.180509.27470@mercury.unt.edu> billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager) says:
- : >You send a query to the meta-database server, and it returns a
- : >list of databases. You pick one [or several- but we can't do this without
- : >overhauling the client] of those, and your client sends a search off to
- : >them.
- : >Now, why couldn't we do this with gopher?
- : >
- : This could be done. Actually, I don't really care to make this a "user"
- : feature. It would involve some major coding and maybe a protocol change.
- : Just something us sysadmins use to figure out where we would like to place
- : links to.
-
- I think making it only a gopher administrator's resource sort of
- defeats the purpose.
-
- I'm a twinkie eating UNIX weanie and could care less about a recipe
- server, for example. But that doesn't mean that none of my gopher
- users are interested in them...or in a bejillion other things I don't
- care about. But, of course, if I link in EVERYTHING then they still
- have the problem...it has just been translated into one of traversing
- my gopher tree hierachy (which would, of course, be huge and constantly
- out of date).
-
- I think it would be a very useful thing indeed if Joe Random
- Entomologist had some way to go out and find some bug databases without
- requiring me to explicitly support a link to them (bugs give me the
- willies). Sort of an archie server for gopher/wais/www resources is
- what I have in mind (possibly with hooks to automagically "go there" in
- various clients or servers).
-
- This is the sort of thing that is going to be necessary to get these
- resources out there to the user in the age of information overload.
- --
- Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University
- Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu - Phone: (601)325-7030 - FAX: (601)325-8921
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