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Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.

From IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.
Date 2025-03-03 21:00 +0000
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morena <morena@morena.rip> wrote:
> On 3/2/25 11:58 AM, IanJ wrote:
>> I, like Nerd Kev, personally don't agree with people turning menus into
>> pseudo web pages. Not only because it makes chunks of them largely
>> unreadable in this client, it also prevents you using the email, print
>> and download features.
>> 
>> The protocol was designed to share files, not menus IMHO...
> 
> Let's check "i" item type, when people turn menus into pseudo web pages.
> 
> echo | nc gopher.icu 70 |grep ^i | wc -l
> 22
> 
> echo | nc morena.rip 70 |grep ^i | wc -l
> 0
> 
> Dear IanJ, 22 from 58 lines of your main menu are just non recognized, 
> custom "i" item types. Shame on you ;/

An ASCII art banner, spacing and section headings. All of which can be
safely ignored.

Menus are not used for content in place of files, that is the point.

> 
> Also that right aligned date is nonsense.

Your opinion.

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The subject of the thread is 'UMN Gopher - menu title length.'. Please
let us focus on whether the changes I have made in my patch are an
improvement to the client, worthy of submitting for inclusion in the
main branch. 

-- 

IanJ

gopher://gopher.icu

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UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-02-25 18:57 +0000
  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-26 21:29 +0000
  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:03 +0000
    Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:35 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-28 22:21 +0000
    Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-01 20:30 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> - 2025-03-01 20:42 -0700
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-03-02 15:59 +1000
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-02 10:58 +0000
          Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. jeojet@not.valid - 2025-03-02 16:13 +0000
            Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-02 18:36 +0000
          Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. morena <morena@morena.rip> - 2025-03-03 20:39 +0100
            Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 21:00 +0000
              Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. morena <morena@morena.rip> - 2025-03-03 23:42 +0100
                Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:04 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-03-02 21:34 +0000
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:23 +0000

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