response 25 of 79:

May 29 00:36 UTC 2017

P.S. Although the above file is accessible via Gopher, you can also read it
with cat, more, less, or your preferred file viewer.

response 27 of 79:

May 29 03:54 UTC 2017

The file is partially restored and now provides a hint for starting your
exploration of Gopherspace. More later.

response 29 of 79:

May 29 09:43 UTC 2017

Nice gopherhole papa! I see the server now at: gopher://grex.org/  which
has no links to other servers as yet, but i am so happy to see an new gopher
server on the net \o/. It won't be long untill a few gopher sites link to grex,
for sure. Just one thing: it would be nice if we could start say the default
gopher client with gopher://grex.org/ and have links on there to the
other main servers etc... and maybe we could have a tutorial, for the complete
newcomer, on the grex server's main menu: great work!! :) 

response 31 of 79:

May 29 17:16 UTC 2017

I've rebuilt and completed my tutorial for accessing Gopherspace. View the
file:

  ~papa/public_gopher/README.1st

You can also access the file with Gopher at the address:

  gopher://grex.org/0/~papa/README.1st

  (use your favorite Gopher client)

I've also created a tutorial for starting your own Grex gopherhole:

  gopher://grex.org/0/~papa/README.2nd

You can also access these files and other Gopherspace phenomena from my
gopherhole's main menu:

  gopher://grex.org/1/~papa

I've tried to make both tutorials as simple as possible for fellow grexers.
Please try them out and let me know how I did.

response 33 of 79:

May 30 01:37 UTC 2017

Let me be clear what I mean:

I *personally* don't want to put a lot of time and effort into
supporting  Gopher, but I'm certainly willing to take content and
marshal it over into the  gopher area, make changes to the server, etc.
If folks use gopher, and most  importantly if it becomes a draw that
pulls people into Grex then I'm fine  with it. If it doesn't, then I'll
take it down (it is, after all, yet another  unencrypted service running
on Grex that could become a security issue). But  if no one is using it,
then no one will notice. :-)

I'd be slightly more enthusiastic about a low-markup set of static blog
web  sites, to be totally honest. Gopher as a protocol is a lot less
interesting. A  gopher-style thing via HTTP, with minimalist content (a
la Markdown) that's  directly interpreted in lieu of HTML is a lot more
interesting.

response 35 of 79:

May 30 14:56 UTC 2017

Cool. Drop it into /cyberspace/contrib/bin ?

response 37 of 79:

May 30 15:15 UTC 2017

I didn't know about /cyberspace/contrib/bin. mygh is in there now. Are there
any guidelines on what's appropriate to put in there?

cross, could you add the following two lines at the bottom of
/var/gopher/gophermap ?
=== Start ...  ==========
Grexer gopherholes ...
~
=== ... End    ==========

That will put a list of links to Grex user ~/public_gopher directories at the
end of the Grex Gopher main page.

response 39 of 79:

May 30 15:25 UTC 2017

I looked at the source code and that's exactly what it does.

However, at the moment it doesn't appear to be an issue in terms of either
performance or resource consumption. Let's leave it for now. If it becomes
an issue later on down the road, we can revisit.

response 41 of 79:

May 30 22:33 UTC 2017

Grex is now on the Floodgap New Gopher Servers list:

  gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/new

This will trigger a visit from the Veronica-2 indexing robot within a couple
of days. After that, Grex gopherspace content will show up in Veronica
searches:

  gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/7/v2/vs

response 43 of 79:

May 31 10:50 UTC 2017

resp:41

It looks like we have been visited. Grex Gopherspace content is now 
searchable with Veronica-2!

response 45 of 79:

May 31 21:22 UTC 2017

I'm changing my font to amber with black background and modem sound
effects

response 47 of 79:

Jun 4 02:03 UTC 2017

#18 that's really cool!

response 49 of 79:

Jun 5 02:26 UTC 2017

One can only hope not.