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I noted with interest your set-up of a gopher server for the physics
e-print lists. I have been working on something similar here at Los Alamos, 
although I have only publicized it locally so far (I am still working out 
a few questions).

I think this is a valuable service, so valuable in fact that I won't be
surprised if the load easily swamps your machine.  If it is agreeable 
to you I suggest we cooperate on this venture, splitting the groups
between us.

My gopher server is somewhat different than yours, feel free to
access it at port=70 Type=1 Path=1/ at Host=qmc.lanl.gov.  Also,
I would like to know if your indexes by title and author, or 
title, author, and abstract?

I have set things up here so that the papers can also be retrieved
directly through gopher.  The most recent papers (typically one
months worth) are kept locally, accesses to older papers 
generate an automatic anonymous ftp to the host of the list
(xxx.lanl.gov, etc.).  I have also set up some scripts so that
the users can run Tex or LaTex on a file automatically from
their X-windows gopher client; I simply added a few options
to the X-window client and set up some simple scripts. If you
are interested in this, let me know.

I would also like to hear any feedback you might have on the
gopher server here.

Regards,
Joe Carlson

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                                         carlson@qmc.lanl.gov
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