I am going to use some markdown formatting in my gopher texts.  The
ones I use will be text readable anyways.  I am doing this so I can
translate my gopher phlog to html more better.

My basic idea is only use some of the Markdown rules, and the ones
I do use are the ones that already look like plain text formatting.

I'll use:

## lists:
- list item A
- list item B
- list item C

## headers:

# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3

## Page breaks:

---

## Preformatted text:
```
This text is preformmatted.
...
...
   3 4   5   6   7
```


---

* Note:
I don't know about using markdown url formatting, because it
makes the plain text look worse.
[this looks worse](http://to.me.com/?asd=qwe)

But <http://this.com/is/ok?qwe=123>

Also some markdown parsers will handle unadorned urls.