Re: misfin (is) mail (for the) small web

Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> writes:

Pretty cool, IMHO - email within Gemini ... :-)
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gemini://misfin.org/
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more info:
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gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/misfin
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My email address on Geminispace is:
pollux@hashnix.club

It's not really *within* Gemini, though, because the protocol differs
from Gemini -- right? Yeah it's got 2-digit response codes like Gemini,
but it's incompatible with Gemini for a couple reasons:

* Gemini spec disallows setting the userinfo portion of the URI, meaning
  the email addresses aren't valid Gemini URIs
* Gemini only allows the client to send data as part of the URI; the
  scheme used to send the body of the message with misfin *is* more
  useful than Gemini's intentionally-crippled approach, but it's
  suspiciously close to an HTTP POST and must therefore be named
  heretical.


john