Regarding Solderpunk's gopher bboard reply, on overly long
gophermaps and how VF-1 does not handle them with a pager:
"IMHO excessively long gopher menus are often (but not always)
an indication that the hierarchical organisation imposed by
Gopher has not been used well, and items should be better
grouped into higher-order categories,..."
I think this is right, in most cases. In fact my own root gophermap
had become quite long as I added link after link to it, separated by
header lines. I suspect for most people it's due to one of two
things:
1) Converting web spaces to gopherspaces, like wikis [0]
2) Creating a native gopherspace, but treating it like the web
That last was definitely me, and I have taken steps to rectify it!
My root gophermap is now much more concise, and hopefully fits
nicely into most people's terminal windows without paging. I created
directories and custom gophermaps for all my related links. I hope
my gopherspace is easier to read now.
The SDF phlogosphere [1] and Bongusta [2] are exceptions, as they
are meant to display a long list of related things, namely gopher
blogs. So it's still worth giving users the option to page through
long gophermaps (or long directories, really any item type 1).
[0]
gopher://alexschroeder.ch/1
[1]
gopher://sdf.org/1/phlogs
[2]
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/en/bongusta/
