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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:12:17 PST
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Reply-To: <cocot@osc.versant.com>
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Message-ID: <surfpunk-0017@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal>
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From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Captain COCOT)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0017] GOPHER: Veronica: new gopher ferretting agents...
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Keywords: surfpunk, gopher, veronica, indexing, browsing, searching
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Veronica indexes gopher page titles.
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I didn't find this incredibly useful for browsing -- it's slow, and
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it doesn't really tell you what's out there.
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It's more useful if you know what you're after, but it has to appear
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in a title. I think this model works well for archie, where you are
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searching for things by pretty fixed names, but I'm having some
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qualms about why this isn't satisfying to me.
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If it were fast, maybe I'd like it better.
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See what you think.
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Captain Cocot
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ways to gopher:
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gopher
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telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu or telnet 134.84.132.4
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telnet panda.uiowa.edu or telnet 128.255.63.234
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telnet gdunix.gd.chalmers.se or 129.16.221.40 (SWEDISH)
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telnet gopher.uiuc.edu or telnet 128.174.33.160
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telnet gopher.unt.edu or telnet 129.120.1.42
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telnet tolten.puc.cl or telnet 146.155.1.16 (CHILE)
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telnet wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Login: wsuinfo)
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telnet una.hh.lib.umich.edu or 141.211.190.102
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telnet gopher.ora.com or telnet 140.186.65.25
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to veronica:
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gopher futique.scs.unr.edu 70
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... or navigate to University of Nevada
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________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________
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From: keith@cc.gatech.edu (Keith Edwards)
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Subject: new gopher ferretting agents...
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From: unr!barrie@uunet.UU.NET (Fred F Barrie)
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Subject: VERONICA (Archie for GopherSpace)
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:39:59 GMT
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This is a new service that should help to relieve the
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resource-discovery bottleneck in the rapidly-expanding gopher web. It
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adds global indexing (by title keywords) to gopher's distributed
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information model.
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Introductory announcement follows:
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About the Veronica service
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VERONICA: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized
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Archives.
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Veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher-server menus in the
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entire gopher web. As Archie is to ftp archives, Veronica is to
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gopherspace. Unlike Archie, the search results can connect you
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directly to the data source. Imagine an Archie search that lets you
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select the data, not just the host sites, directly from a menu.
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Because Veronica is accessed through a gopher client, it is easy to
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use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the gopher
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protocol.
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Veronica was designed as a response to the problem of resource
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discovery in the rapidly-expanding gopher web. Frustrated comments in
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the net news-groups have recently reflected the need for such a
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service. Additional motivation came from the comments of naive gopher
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users, several of whom assumed that a simple-to-use service would
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provide a means to find resources "without having to know where they
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are."
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The result of a Veronica search is an automatically-generated gopher
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menu, customized according to the user's keyword specification. Items
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on this menu may be drawn from many gopher servers. These are
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functional gopher items, immediately accessible via the gopher client
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... just double-click to open directories, read files, or perform
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other searches -- across hundreds of gopher servers. You need never
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know which server is actually involved in filling your request for
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information. Items that are appear particularly interesting can be
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saved in the user's bookmark list.
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Notice that these are NOT full-text searches of data at gopher-server
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sites, just as Archie does not index the contents of ftp sites, but
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only the names of files at those sites. Veronica indexes the TITLES
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on all levels of the menus, for most gopher sites in the Internet.
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258 gophers are indexed by Veronica on Nov. 17, 1992; we have
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discovered over 500 servers and will index the full set in the near
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future. We hope that Veronica will encourage gopher administrators to
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use very descriptive titles on their menus.
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To try Veronica, select it from the "Other Gophers" menu on
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Minnesota's gopher server, or point your gopher at:
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Name=Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)
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Type=1
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Port=70
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Path=1/Veronica
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Host=futique.scs.unr.edu
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Veronica is an experimental service, developed by Steve Foster and
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Fred Barrie at University of Nevada. As we expect that the load will
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soon outgrow our hardware, we will distribute the Veronica service
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across other sites in the near future.
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Please address comments to: gophadm@futique.scs.unr.edu
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November 17, 1992
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Steve Foster
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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