Gopher Jewels

... catalogs many of the best Gopher sites by categories (subject tree) and takes you to the relevent information buried somewhere in their hole.

Burrow into a Gopher Jewel's category:

Want to Contribute?

Comments, changes, and additions are welcome!

Send them to: GopherJewels-Comment@EINet.net

GOPHERJEWELS@EINet.net is a moderated list service for the sharing of interesting gopher finds. This list expects subscribers that are either gopher developers or gopher users and is not for the discussion of establishing, maintaining, or using gophers or gopher space. No technical Q&A posts please! Direct technical issues to the appropriate service provider as listed below.

Gopher Jewels List Moderator -- General Questions

David Riggins (David.Riggins@TPoint.com)

Gopher Jewels List Owner -- List Technical Q&A

Bruce Speyer (Speyer@EINet.net)

All posts that identify a gopher site should include (at minimum) the following:

Brief explanation as to why the gopher site is worth visiting
name=... (the Gopher's name)
host=... (telnet address)
Location of gopher site on the University of Minnesota's Master Gopher List
The full .links and URL information would be nice too.

To subscribe, address the following message (in the message body) to LISTPROC@EINet.net substituting your First and Last name:

SUBSCRIBE GOPHERJEWELS FirstName LastName

An acknowledgement and information file will return to you with details about using the list, setting user options and retrieving Gopher Jewel's archive files. This list is maintained by software that filters out most of the erroneous messages caused by user mistakes and bad mail addresses.

As of November 16, 1994 there were 3,347 GOPHERJEWELS list subscribers.

--NEW--

GOPHERJEWELS-TALK@EINet.net is now in operation for Q&A with regards to the use of Gopher. This is an unmoderated list that any subscriber may post to. To become a member of this forum send email to LISTPROC@EINet.net substituting your First and Last name:

SUBSCRIBE GOPHERJEWELS-TALK FirstName LastName

As of November 16, 1994 there were 851 GOPHERJEWELS-TALK list subscribers.

World Wide Web Source Site

Gopher Jewels has been threaded into the EINet Information Galaxy which also includes non-Gopher information resources and full WAIS-based search capabilities. Traditional Gopher Jewels with searching may also be accessed here. Gopher Jewels Gopherspace, the gophers referenced by the Jewels may also be searched.

Gopher Source Site

The live Gopher-based version of Gopher Jewels is available through the University of Southern California - USCgopher.

FTP Source Site

The latest Gopher Jewels documentation is available through EINet. Also obtainable by sending a INDEX GOPHERJEWELS command to LISTPROC@EINET.NET and then retrieve using the GET GOPHERJEWELS FILENAME command.

NOTE: The Gopher Jewels raw text file is not available for anonymous retrieval anymore and is trademarked. If you would like to directly incorporate Gopher Jewels into your application please contact David Riggins the source author. It is our intention to maintain a few high quality up-to-date sites which everybody can access. Gopher Jewels is freely distributed to those providers for use in non-commercial applications and in commercial applications with written permission.

Kudos

Gopher Jewels is freely distributed to those providers for use in non-commercial applications and in commercial applications with written permission. Please give appropriate credits and for more information contact the Gopher Jewels' researcher and author:

David Riggins

Texas Department of Commerce

Office of Advanced Technology

Austin, Texas 78711

(512) 320-9561

David.Riggins@TPoint.com

A special thanks to:

Pete Siemsen (Siemsen@USC.edu) for giving Gopher Jewels a home on his USCgopher, and for his technical services/advice. The University of Southern California Gopher is the official home of the Gopher Jewels subject tree.
Bruce Speyer (Speyer@EINet.net) at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) for deploying Gopher Jewels onto EINet, the World Wide Web and for managing the GOPHERJEWELS electronic mailing list and archive services.
Wayne McDilda (McDilda_WA@DIR.Texas.gov) at DIR for technical assistance. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) for providing access to the Net and Gopher space, so I can surf for new Jewels.
Turning Point Information Services (Tom.Parish@TPoint.com) for the original Gopher Jewels list services and ftpmail services.
(now moved to EINet)
Gleason Sackman (Sackman@plains.nodak.edu) for posting all Gopher Jewels announcements to Net-Happenings. Net-Happenings is the only list we announce on outside the Gopher Jewels Project lists, and he gets full credit for introducing Gopher Jewels to the Internet community.

What folks are saying about the Gopher Jewels List:

South Australia...: ``The list is one of the most useful. The contributions are brief, to-the-point and very valuable in highlighting specific gophers.''
Oxford, OH...: ``At first I was skeptical about the value of such a list and thought I would give it a trial subscription. But, I have found it to be very useful indeed.''
North York, Ontario...: ``Since the list started I have found more sources of relevant information than I could ever have imagined.''
Brookline, MA...: ``I really enjoy getting the list. It helps me pinpoint my research in a manageable way. Good work.''
Chicago, IL...: ``Please keep up the good work! I find the gopher jewels list very helpful.''