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a gopher use case

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Thought I'd share that I had a systems need and gopher solved it nicely. In
fact, I can't presently think of a more elegant way to solve it!

I read a lot of newsfeeds via RSS, and frequently you come across an article
you'd like to save - what to do when RSS feeds change constantly?  So I made
a little script into which you can pipe the article.  The script sends the
contents of the article to a text editor for trimming, asks a few questions
for the purpose of categorizing, and then saves it into a folder tree that's
being served up by pygopherd gopher server.  The script prepends the date,
so every article looks like 2018_05-08-blahblah_blah.txt.  Pygopherd notices
the new text file and auto-updates its cache so it gets served up almost
instantaneously.

Going back to find that snippet of text that seemed worth keeping is easy:
just navigate the categories using a gopher browser!

As a bonus, the script is useful for other things too: I now find myself
sending short emails to it, for example.

Software being used:
mutt for email
newsbeuter for RSS feed reader
pygopherd gopher server
and one ridiculously short bash script

I'm super happy with the arrangement.  I used to pipe them to a Usenet
newsgroup, but that too spools off eventually.  And using your email inbox
as a repository is inelegant.  Bonus points, if I want I can set up some
easy search functions etc.  

For this purpose, gopher fit the bill perfectly.  I can't imagine a simpler
or more elegant system.

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a gopher use case RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-17 00:15 +0000
  Re: a gopher use case FGK <f6k@sdf.org> - 2018-05-24 06:58 +0000
    Re: a gopher use case RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-25 21:13 -0400
      Re: a gopher use case FGK <f6k@sdf.org> - 2018-05-26 13:13 -0500
        Re: a gopher use case RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-26 21:58 -0400

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