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Unfortunately, Veronica has proven to suffer from numerous problems, some inherent to Gopherspace. The nature of Gopherspace--in which entries can easily point to items at distant servers, and a given server hierarchy can have a complex and even recursive structure--makes proper indexing difficult.
Further, Gopher menu items are often terse to the point of obscurity when viewed out of the context of their menu. Thus, it is not obvious whether the results of a Veronica search are different items or multiple listings. Further, there are currently only three or four publicly accessible Veronica servers.)
Searches using Veronica can be hit-and-miss. The search in the following example for macrobiotic milk turned up ten hits. Searches for supersonic aircraft turned up zero. Iran contra hit one. Fleas and ticks, zero. Gopher hit too many items to list. Can you believe it?
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Search Gopher Directory Titles via U.Texas, Dallas: macrobiotic
milk
--> 1. The Milk Round/
2. Division of Milk Control/
3. 58 FR 50511: Milk in the New York-New Jersey and Black Hills,
Sout../
4. 58 FR 50526: Milk in the Louisville-Lexington-Evansville
Marketing../
5. 58 FR 50511: Milk in the New York-New Jersey and Black Hills,
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6. 58 FR 50526: Milk in the Louisville-Lexington-Evansville
Marketing../
7. Subpart I -- Condensed Milk Subcategory/
8. Subpart J -- Dry Milk Subcategory/
9. Healthy Milk/
10. 637.1 Milk production/
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