From: gopher-bounce@complete.org
       Date: Mon Aug  4 20:32:20 2008
       Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopherness
       
       Jay Nemrow wrote:
       > "Updated" nostalgia is not nostalgia at all.
       
       Sure, but an improved Gopher could have practical uses. I think, 
       perhaps, it might be a better idea to start from nearly scratch and 
       create a new protocol that takes the best ideas from Gopher (the 
       simplicity of the client! the structured layout!) and add and modifies 
       features that we feel would be useful (Replace the limited item type 
       system with something based on MIME types (which has the useful fallback 
       of "display unknown text/* types as text, everything else unknown should 
       be treated as application/octet-stream"), sending some metadata in the 
       response, perhaps define a way to send requests with data).
       
       This is different than extending Gopher in that we DON'T worry about 
       backwards compatibility - at least, not on the protocol level. Servers 
       that speak both Gopher and Comepher (or another bad pun, since those 
       seem to be inevitable) would be a Good Thing.