Slerm [SLugmax's gERM] is a Gopher blogging system originally based
on germ, which was written by Wesley Teal (wt) here at SDF. The two
codebases have diverged quite a bit, but the feature set is largely
the same. Germ is additionally concerned with being compatible with
various gopher servers, while slerm has only been tested on
bucktooth and gophernicus, the latter is the gopher server currently
in use at SDF. Slerm works similarly to the blogging software
bloxsom, in that it displays a blog page dynamically based on text
files in a given directory, sorted by modification time. Here are
the basic features:

- Display a configurable number of posts per page
- Configurable page headers, page footers and post dividers
- Configurable permalink text
- Allows post comments
- Displays number of comments in each post
- Allows ordering of comments in reverse date order
- Allows sending an email alert when comments are left
- Allows post tags and filtering post displays by tag
- Ability to embed gophermap links within posts
- Static page and post generation
- Ability to use '--more--' as a post shortener
- Display a list of books you're currently reading

There are also a couple of helper scripts included with slerm, one
to publish a post from a staging directory (publish), and one to
update or pull from a post timestamp cache (upd). The latter is
useful if you ever need to go back and edit an old post - you can
revert the modification time on the post file back to its original,
leaving the order of your gopher blog posts undisturbed.