They aren't so that people can set up their own private servers and provide services to the rest of the Internet. Everything worked fine - it just seemed odd. Gopher menus on Netscape have little icons next to them. The yellow file means that other things are contained within the link such as other files, more white pages with corner turned, etc. I believe the computer icon means a link to another gopher server.
Forms are possible right now.
There is a cgi script called metafeedback installed on the system. You can feed it the contents of your form and it will send mail to wherever you specify. That should work for what you are wanting to do. You create a form using the normal form creation methods, using metafeedback as the action. There are special variables you can set to control the action of metafeedback, such as where to send the mail, what information to include in the mail, etc.