Ideas for Improving Slerm

There are some ideas I've had for improving the slerm phlogging
engine [], the main one being adding full-text search. In fact, this
seems to be a drawback to gopher itself - although the Veronica and
VISHNU searches [1] are useful, they index only selectors - not
full-text [2]. For a lightweight, text-based protocol, this seems a
big weakness. It means you have to hunt around gopherspace for
interesting tidbits, since selector names aren't always that
descriptive. It appears WAIS was meant to address this limitation,
although only for locally connected gopher servers via a special
client (think pre-internet).

Anyway, if you have any ideas on what would be a useful addition to
slerm, leave a comment and let me know.

[0] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/about-slerm.txt
[1] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2
[2] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/v2/help/noluck

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