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Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

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From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid

Subject: Re: Geminisphere via backlinks

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:29:06 -0800

Message-ID: <1646030761.bystand@zzo38computer.org>

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

I know very little about gemini, but that sounds like an early sign of building
into gemini the sort of crap that weighs down http/html and I though gemini was
meant to act as an escape from?

Well, it is an optional feature that I suppose that you do not have to use if

you do not want to do. It also isn't a capability of the protocol or of the file

format; it is a separate program using them, as much as you can do like any other

CGI program can do.

(It is done without needing a Referer header. I do not want to add things like

the HTTP Referer header and that stuff, either, but the program that was written

does not use it; it uses only the existing format.)

However, I think that it is not needed, anyways. Back links isn't really

something that I need, and if you want to write articles with comments, then

the NNTP could be used. You could even cross-post, even if with Unusenet to

multiple servers with different newsgroups, and then set follow up to and can

follow up on your own server, and can still find the links.

(You could also make same messages exposed with multiple protocols, and can

also use "Content-type: text/gemini" in NNTP and still readable even in a

program that only understands plain text, too. This way, it is better than HTML.)

--

Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.

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Re: Geminisphere via backlinks (by Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> on Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:12:38 +0000)

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Geminisphere via backlinks (by Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:23:45 -0000 (UTC))