---- A lot of folks need ability to retrieve and display pictures, but there is no real consensus on ONE format for these pictures. We don't want to define a type character for every oddball picture type. Gopher+ handles Pictures, Movies, and Sounds by defining three item types: ":" for bitmap images, ";" for movies, and "<" for sounds (originally I, M, and S were suggested, but they were informally in use in other ways; the only thing magic about ":", ";", and "<", is that they are the first characters after '9') ---- When I first read this, I had thought the ':' type was specifically refering to bitmap images of the .BMP veriety. In other words, the raw, uncompressed image data. But on re-reading it, it seems that it's actually implying a deprecation of the 'g' and 'I' types ("We don't want to define a type character for every oddball picture type.") and using only ':' for images, compressed or not, and letting the MIME type be more specific. This seems like a much saner way to go about it. Is this the correct interpretation of the above?