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- From: billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager)
- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.022146.1215@mercury.unt.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:21:46 GMT
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- peterd@bunyip.com (Peter Deutsch) writes:
-
- >This echoes the point I was trying to make in one of my previous posts.
- >Providing a good Yellow Pages service is a different puppy from
- >providing a great tool for easy interactive browsing of collections of
- >information. 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)
- >
- *throws up violently* ;-) That is EXACTLY the opposite of what I am seeking
- with my Gopher server. Our goal here at NT is to hide where the data
- is from the end user. I've talked to a lot of users. The theme I always
- hear is "I just want the data. I don't care where it is and really do not
- want to know." Transparency is the goal. It requires time and effort though.
-
- This concept will help the sites that do not invest the time and energy into
- their Gopher though.
-
- Billy
-