URL modified

On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996 SJamar[_at_]aol.com wrote:
> >
> > One must carefully draw a distintinction, I think, between the
> > typeface (graphic representation) itself, and the generative program.
>
> We did, in the message that started this thread. It's archived at
> gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/0R434440-439194-/cniftp/forums/cni-copyright/
> log9603
> so I won't repeat it here.

One of the unfortunate characteristics of a gopher type URL such as the one Terry cited, is that it relies on raw byte values to point to the location of an individual e-mail note or news posting within a larger single file.

In other words, the file "log9603" contains two to three hundred individual pieces of email lumped into one physical file, and the way the gopher protocol builds a URL for an individual note within the file is by looking at the starting byte and ending byte of the particular note being referenced (the string "0R434440-439194" above). Naturally, if anything changes the beginning or ending byte value of the note (e.g. its location), the URL becomes invalid...

In the process of loading the CNI-COPYRIGHT archives for the month of March into the BRS/Search system here, I noticed an couple of errors in the file and repaired it. This editing results in the unfortunate side-effect that the URL Terry cited is no longer valid.

If you were looking for the posting Terry cited, it can be found at this new and valid URL:

gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/0R355830-360584-/cniftp/forums/cni-copyright/log9603

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