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Re: Gopherpedia is Alive?!

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IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> writes:

> Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2025-11-27, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> 
>>> Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
>>>> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>>>>> Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
>>>>> Also in the Dillo Gopher plug-in the homepage works but none of
>>>>> the text documents load. No time to send the "/" selector string
>>>>> over my internet connection? Akfgb (from akfnetz) loads pages with
>>>>> short selector request strings, but not long ones, and sometimes
>>>>> short ones fail too, so I think that's it. No time for bug reports
>>>>> now though, or indeed finding out whether there's an email address
>>>>> to send them to...
>>>> 
>>>> try gopher://gopherpedia.com
>>>
>>> gopher gopher://gopherpedia.com
>>>
>>>                         +--------Gopher Error---------+
>>>                         |                             |
>>>                         |     Nothing available.      |
>>>                         |                             |
>>>                         |  [Cancel - ^C] [OK: Enter]  |
>>>                         +-----------------------------+
>>>
>>>> Sometimes he has issues that I'll report to him, but yeah it's been
>>>> quite consistent.
>>>
>>> Have you tried UMN Gopher? Anyway given the behavior with long
>>> selectors in other Gopher clients I'm fairly sure super-short
>>> connention time-outs on the srver are the issue. Your internet
>>> might be quick enough that the requests always get through in
>>> time.
>> 
>> From US SDF, on what I think is the UMN gopher client (unless it has
>> been replaced by something else?), I can load the front page, but any of
>> the entries appear to fail to transfer content.
>> 
>> Is this some issue with gopher+? IIRC didn't the UMN client try to do
>> gopher+ requests to all servers?
>> 
>> If I try to manually enter the selector of one of the entries, I get the
>> error you quoted above.
>> 
>> Meanwhile, it works on OverbiteFF on SeaMonkey*.
>> 
>> 
>> * Do note that the latest release of OverbiteFF needs a change in order
>>   to work with more recent releases of SeaMonkey, see
>>   news://news.blueworldhosting.com/udhd96$ngl$1@dont-email.me
>> 
>
> Gopherpedia used to work for me in both UMN Gopher and lynx. Then
> something changed and it stopped working in UMN Gopher. I emailed
> the author, he replied to my first email but after I followed up
> with more information I heard nothing more.
>
> Currently it doesn't even work for me in lynx, all I see is an empty
> gopher menu from either my home internet connection or my openbsd.ams vps. 
>
> I have at this point given up on it, as it didn't seem that the creator
> actually cared enough to follow up that it wasn't working.
>
> Obviously I was quite disappointed as this was one of the genuinely
> useful gopher services.

Wow that's weird. I use wikipedia daily on my lynx browser and it has
been consistently fine. Just loaded it right now. Got the random
articles followed by recent pages.

D
finger calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

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