Gopher URL shortening [was: Re: Gopher item type for Markdown?]

Christoph Lohmann <20h-hp7/[email protected]> Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:26:37 +0200

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Greetings.

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:26:37 +0200 Cameron Kaiser <spectre-nb4sah8SP49Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> > The last thing I want to do here is break any standards, hence asking
> > here first!
> 
> I'll just say I think it's this community-oriented aspect of Gopher that has
> really impressed me over the last few years, rather than one company
> unilaterally imposing its will on the Web, ahem. (That company may change
> from time to time, but not the dominant aspect.)

Just for the fun of web satire:

How will be the standard for gopher URL shortening?

Do we shorten

	gopher://bitreich.org/h/URL:http://wikipedia.org

to just

	http://wikipedia.org ?


Sincerely yours,

Christoph Lohmann