Devil's advocate: maybe terminal documents are a good thing. In
the Gopher community, virtually everyone feels a need to build
links to other Gopher servers. The result is several hundred
different ways of setting up paths to each other -- both to
root Gophers, and to interesting documents within various servers.
A few months ago, the Merit Network mounted a Gopher for the
Chronicle of Higher Ed, a US publication that's followed closely
in academe. This Gopher server is the first I've found with zero
outside links. It stands on its own.
I find this very appealing. If other single-topic servers followed
the same model, we could end up with a division of labor, where some
servers have a goal of providing unique documents, and others have
the goal of organizing Gopher documents within a subject area, and
others have the goal of organizing the subject Gophers.
If, instead, everybody tries to organize every relevant resource
/Rich Wiggins, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U
on the net, then it seems to me that's what won't scale. I realize
the notion of the Web emphasizes interconnectedness, but clients do
offer easy ways to leap