From: gopher-bounce@complete.org
       Date: Sun Aug  3 21:25:45 2008
       Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions
       
       Hulloh,
       > A possible workaround: get the parent menu (using the same method I
       > mentioned before - I don't remember anything stating the selectors are
       > supposed to be built with a slash between each directory name, I need to
       > read the rfc again (even if gopher is supposed to be hierarchical, what
       > prevents some server from using dots instead of slashes for directory
       > separators?)), check the mime-type (for the mime-in-the-menu approach),
       > or check if the entry has gopher+ data (then retrieve such data).
        Exactly - you can't rely on '/' being the separator, or that the last
       section cut off yields the valid parent dir, or even that there are
       directories.
       
        At this point I'd much rather drop this protocol extension thing, and
       focus on using the existing technology to the fullest.. whatever that
       means :)
       
        ...
        For that matter, I'd love a client for Windows Mobile 6.. also for the
       iphone 3G :) 
       
        On the server side: full text search engine. I have some experience
       with using the HyperEstraier engine. I have about 16 gigabytes of text
       indexed; I can search and view results over Gopher (with a python
       "mole"), it's pretty fast and convenient. It also supports boolean
       operators and phrase search.
        It doesn't have a Gopher spider currently per se, but it's fully open
       source; maybe we could fit a spider to it? (Or even get the existing
       Veronica spider to talk to it?)
        (Setting up and initializing the search db (from local data) is very
       easy, so the required effort to play with it is minimal.)
       
       Regards,
        Mate