VII. Becoming part of the worldwide GopherSpace
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Often there are documents which you would like to offer your user community
which are already available at other gopher servers.  Pointing to those
servers is simply a matter of using an appropriately formatted link tuple:

	Name=International Gopher Network (based at University of Minnesota)
	Type=1
	Port=70
	Path=1/Other Gopher and Information Servers
	Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu

This link will open your client's access to the world.  Your server should
probably be registered with other servers as well, so the whole of GopherSpace
can access it.  For example, you should probably send a mailgram to the
University of Minnesota, at gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu, telling them about
your new server and giving them a link tuple to reach you.

	Name=Your Institution Here
	Type=1
	Port=yourport#
	Path=
	Host=yourgopher.yourhost.edu

For example,

	Name=Penn State University Libraries, University Park, PA, USA
	Type=1
	Port=70
	Path=
	Host=psulias.psu.edu

Of course, if you are part of a campus-wide GopherSpace, you probably don't
need to register with the University of Minnesota, since they probably already
have your campus' main gopher in their list.  However, you should register
with your campus' main gopher so that, through that site, you are fully
connected with the web of GopherSpace.

As a user of an OpenVMS Gopher Server, you should probably subscribe to the
list VMSGOPHER-L@trln.lib.unc.edu.  This discussion list, hosted by Dennis
Sherman of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, USA), is the medium where discussion between the porters/developers
and users of the OpenVMS Gopher Server takes place.  Send EMAIL (no
interactive messages) to the address

	MXServer@TRLN.LIB.UNC.EDU

with a single-line body reading

	SUBSCRIBE VMSGOPHER-L

and join the OpenVMS Gopher Server community.  OpenVMS Gopher Client
discussion and porting is also underway and discussion continues on this list
for that subject as well.  Various porting efforts for the server are
underway, not just this server.  A DECThreads version is also being worked
upon by a subscriber.  There is also interest in incorporating Gopher+ efforts
into the OpenVMS Gopher Server.

Also, as a user of an OpenVMS Gopher Server, you are requested to also send
your  connection information to the discussion list
VMSGOPHER-L@trln.lib.unc.edu. This announces the presense of another OpenVMS
Gopher Server to the folks who are doing the actual porting of Gopher to
OpenVMS.  Your link tuple will be added to the central OpenVMS Gopher Server
nexus at Niord.SHSU.edu.  You should also add the following link tuple to your
server so you can reach other OpenVMS Gopher Servers more directly; thanks to
George Greenwade of Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas, USA) for
offering this service.

	Name=Other OpenVMS-based Gopher Servers
	Type=1
	Port=70
	Path=1gopher_root:[_data.gopherstuff.others]
	Host=Niord.shsu.edu

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