Subj : Re: Gopher servers
To   : Alonzo
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Mar 25 2023 08:36 am

-=> Alonzo wrote to All <=-

Al> Along with y Mystic BBS, I was thinking about setting up a gopher
Al> server. Partly becuse I like a challenge, but also as a place to store
Al> and offer for download a LOT of music from my old recording studio.

Synchronet offers a Gopher server, but it only serves system content.
What I'd really like to find is a way to make user web/gopher spaces
using Synchronet or Mystic. Not sure how to handle getting files to the
web root and managing the URL redirects, though.

I've been playing with tildes, user spaces where people can share
gopher and gemini pages, public html spaces served with a
website.com/~username URL (hence the name)

Imagine being able to offer access to FTN networks, email, IRC/MRC and
web/gopher space for users as well. It'd be interesting to add that
level of community to BBSing.



... It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it plays out for 'em...
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