[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Nick Matavka]

On 20 May 2012 07:09, Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us> wrote:
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> On 05/19/2012 12:28 PM, Nick Matavka wrote:
>> On 19 May 2012 14:11, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>>> On 2012-05-19, Nick Matavka wrote:
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>>>> I have an idea for selectors.  There is a large difference between
>>>> word processing files and page layout languages, so I recommend
>>>> keeping both d and p selectors.  d could be for word processing
>>>> documents such as Word, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect, and p could be
>>>> for page layout and markup languages such as LaTeX, PDF, PostScript,
>>>> and Rich Text Format.
>>>
>>> About LaTeX, I believe either you're serving the code as something for
>>> the user to read (hence type 0 or another type that gets established for
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> I expect to read a 0 in my client, and download a 9 so I can choose from
> the myriad of apps I choose between to open a particular type of file.
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> Wouldn't anything else require bloated intelligence on the part of my
> client?
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I have received a number of highly valid suggestions that those
computing on a constrained platform, or with constrained bandwidth,
are not to be left out of my Gopher RFC draft simply because I choose
to use Google Docs.  Therefore, I have also uploaded a lo-fi (with no
content lost, just plain-text) version on:

www.piratepad.com/gopher

Baranapup, 20h, etc. -> I listen, don't worry.  It might take time for
me to do it, but I listen.

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