*** Veronica-2 Help: Result accuracy
First, an immediate disclaimer: NEITHER THE ADMINISTATORS OF VERONICA-2 NOR
FLOODGAP TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU MAY END UP FINDING. Whether you
find it helpful, inaccurate, stupid or even objectionable, we cannot be held
responsible for content maintained by other users or servers. If you have
concerns, please mail us at
[email protected] but be aware that
we will probably not be able to assist you with content we don't maintain
(i.e. just about everything in the database).
** Your best bet is something that points to an actual file. ** That means
something like a text document, an image or a binary. The Veronica-2
robot has made a best-guess effort to verify the selector's existence and
while it may not necessarily be what you're looking for, it's virtually
guaranteed to be a valid selector.
In Gopher's twilight, servers may break or be shut down without warning, and
what Veronica-2 once verified existed may no longer exist. Gopher servers
are, unfortunately, rarely maintained as well as their Web counterparts in
this day and age. On behalf of those moronic cretin administrators who should
know better than to let the gophers under their care rot and degenerate, we
apologise for your frustration. We try to keep on top of this, but the
unpredictable nature of Gopherspace these days makes it continuously
problematic. Please report gaping errors to
[email protected], particularly
duplicate file selectors and just plain dead sites.
Folders and directories can be very useful but because of Gopher's gradual
decline earlier on, many offer selectors that point to incorrect locations.
Some are completely unmaintained and no selector at all in them works;
and still others are totally empty and have nothing in them at all.
Unfortunately, the robot can't guard against these since the folder does
in fact exist (it's just junk, is all). Clicker beware.
Search servers and Telnet locations are slightly troublesome. The bot can
only verify these by checking that something answers at the location
specified, but whether the server or host is actually in operation and
doing the functions advertised is impossible for it to verify. Careful.
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