Gopher item type for Markdown?

[Matt Owen <matt@jaruzel.com>]

Hi All,

I've been mulling this one over for a while... I'm thinking of adding markdown support to my Gopher client, which is relatively easy to do, but I'd like some input on:

a) Is this a good thing to do? Markdown is technically still text, but some might feel that it shouldn't be part of the gopher item types.

b) If the feeling is that there's no issue having support for markdown, what would be the best character to use as an item type identifier. I see that 'M' is already taken (MIME encoded resource), but lower case 'm' isn't. Obviously if I go ahead with this, the item type would need to be an agreed standard. Does anyone have any views on this?

Thanks!

-Matt/Jaruzel
http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows