Re: Project Gutenberg Gopher

Hi all

I was browsing it using the Gopher client by Charles Childers on iOS and from the web using the Floodgap proxy and noticed a few issues:

The iOS client shows no content for the three first menu items: (Our Most Popular Books, Our Latest Releases, Random Books). I’ve seen this before when gopher menus didn’t use \r\n to end an item. I haven’t checked right now because I’m on a mobile device.

The lists don’t have basic info like author or title of the book in question.

The text download links don’t link to the text files via item type text but via item type web, e.g. http://gutenberg.pglaf.org/2/20/20.txt

Cheers

Alex

Am 17.01.2018 um 05:07 schrieb James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>:

This is awesome to see! And works great with prologic/gopherproxy [1]

https://gopher.mills.io/dante.pglaf.org

Thanks for making this available to Gopherspace!

cheers
James

[1]: https://github.com/prologic/gopherproxy

James Mills / prologic

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:56 AM, Mr. Leveck <leveck@leveck.us> wrote:
Greetings,

Project Gutenberg has been hosting a Gopher frontend for their service
since October. It is reachable thru this URL: gopher://dante.pglaf.org

Here is is a communication from their CEO:

> This service has been running, and I'm not sure what we might want to
> do with it. It has not yet been publicized.
>
> Let me know, and thanks again,
> Greg Newby

I am seeking advice from the group as to what Project Gutenberg should
do to publicize this service. I am certain they are aware that they are
aware that the very nature of gopher:// means it will never have huge
amounts of traffic.

Please reply to all on the is thread as I have CC'd Dr. Newby on this
message.

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Nathaniel Leveck
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