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- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!dxpt01!sendall
- From: sendall@dxpt01.cern.ch (Mike Sendall)
- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.074614.7858@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Sender: sendall@dxpt01 (Mike Sendall)
- Reply-To: sendall@dxcern.cern.ch
- Organization: CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
- References: <1992Jul27.163746.974@nstn.ns.ca> <1992Jul27.180509.27470@mercury.unt.edu> <1992Jul27.201122.17017@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:46:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.201122.17017@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
- |>
- |>In article <1992Jul27.180509.27470@mercury.unt.edu> billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager) writes:
- |>>daniel@nstn.ns.ca (Daniel MacKay) writes:
- |>>
- |>>>Now, the WAIS thang works because all the people who run WAISs, have sent
- |>>>in to the mother of all WAISs, an abstract for each database they've
- |>>>published.
- |>>>
- |>>Not all. I've found quite a few WAISs that are NOT in the master directory.
- |>>This also is the biggest problem with WAIS. The directory is flat and |>>getting too big.
- |>
- |>Use WAIS as a filter: search the directory of sources for databases with
- |>appropriate keywords. Then search the resulting sources for the stuff you're
- |>interested in. I suspect that some of the clients make this more difficult
- |>than it should be, considering the basic need for this functionality.
- |>
- This only partly works out for WAIS. Unfortunately not all servers put
- enough useful information in the description field of their WAIS source.
- So the Directory of Servers isn't always able to identify useful sources
- in response to user queries. Still, it certainly helps, and with a bit more
- effort on the part of people setting up servers it could be better still.
-