Time to Re-visit Dynamic Phlogging

For a few years SDF used the Bucktooth gopher server, which works
fine but had some security issues that were very hard to fix given
that server's design and the difficulty of testing.

In particular, this affected gopher moles (CGI scripts), as SMJ had
disabled them due to security concerns. I and a few others mentioned
Gophernicus, which SMJ was kind enough to install and which now
powers the SDF gopher sites. It supports much of the CGI standard
and was designed with security in kind. Now that we have mole
capability back, I'd like to revisit Slerm [0], my gopher phlogging
engine that was based partly on Germ [1], by wt. Last I checked
Slerm did not work as-is, and will need some work. This would allow
you to dump text files in a directory and have the phlog engine
(really a gopher CGI script) display them in date order, broken up
in pages, with links to archives and with tag and simple comment
support (think Bloxsom for gopher). The latest version of Germ seems
to support Gophernicus, so perhaps that is a good starting point.

[0] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/code/slerm-1.3.cgi.txt
[1] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/wt/soft/my/germ/

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