OK, now you're asking for it. I've been mulling this stuff over in my head for a couple weeks, and I've got some pretty good ideas as to how it all fits together. WAIS calls it a document.
Gopher calls it an item or a textfile or something.
WWW used to call it a document, and now calls it a resource. MIME coined this term. Some Stuff is terminated by a newline, and may not contain tabs. It could just as well be a set of attributes and not a single one. Sure, that's legal.