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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
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- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:27:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.002902.8570@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> peterd@bunyip.com (Peter Deutsch) says:
- :
- : your browsing tool is a great way to access the
- : information once it is built up (so a gateway to this service, with
- : a suitable link at the top of every Gopher hierarchy, seems to make
- : sense) but I don't see that it is inherently a "Gopher problem"
- : at all. It is a general Internet services problem, and we should be
- : looking at generalized solutions, not ad hoc solutions for deployment
- : within each new service.
-
- Indeed. I didn't use the reference to archie lightly. It seems to
- provide a very nice framework for indexing an uncoordinated and
- distributed information pool like the internet.
-
- The problem is that the information necessary to build a useful
- information index isn't really there in a lot of protocols including
- FTP and gopher. I used archie to find a software package recently. I
- found files at a site that had a recently created version of the
- package...yet that version turned out to be older than other versions
- made available previously.
-
- It might be a useful exercise (one that, no doubt, has been done
- before) to identify what information about a given gopher entry or
- package available for FTP would be useful for indexing and see how much
- of it can be practically made available. Things like (this isn't a
- complete list...just off the top of my head) size, version ID, a brief
- (one line or so) description, a keyword list, an archive date.
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