From h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk  Thu Oct 21 08:39:04 1993
Message-Id: <9310210840.AA07126@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 08:39:04 +0000
To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net
From: h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk (Henry Rzepa) (Henry Rzepa)
Subject: Re: American Chemical Society gopher (fwd)


Excellent idea. Might I take it further by suggesting the gopher might
carry information 
NOT on the ACS pages! For example, color plates, which are currently very
expensive,
might be archived here. Further, animations can also be added. Just in case
you have
not noticed, we have been running our own gopher for this purpose for a
year or more.
It contains animations, sound, colour plates, programs etc etc.
It can be accessed as argon-fddi.ch.ic.ac.uk (155.198.1.33).

Clearly the problem confronting us is how to ensure quality of this
material. Gopher
is a highly distributed concept. Do we want to have say only one ACS and one
RSC gopher, which is tightly controlled by the societies? This would ensure
security,
quality control, peer review mechanisms etc. But is it within the gopher
concept of
a distributed system? 


Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; 
rzepa@ic.ac.uk via Eudora 1.4, Tel:+44  71 225 8339, Fax:+44 71 589 3869.