From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949F01F953 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 03:40:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: [PATCH] doc: design_notes: updates for "newer" things Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 03:40:33 +0000 Message-Id: <20211104034033.15625-1-e@80x24.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: public-inbox-imapd, public-inbox-watch, and marketing.txt all exist, now. --- Documentation/design_notes.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index 71f6b77a..3df5af3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/design_notes.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Use existing infrastructure * public-inbox can coexist with existing mailing lists, any subscriber to the existing mailing list can begin delivering messages to - public-inbox-mda(1) + public-inbox-mda(1) or public-inbox-watch(1) * public-inbox uses SMTP for posting. Posting a message to a public-inbox instance is no different than sending a message to any _open_ mailing @@ -72,11 +72,12 @@ Why git? * git is distributed and robust while being both fast and space-efficient with text data. NNTP was considered, but does not support delta-compression and places no guarantees on data/transport - integrity. However, a read-only NNTP gateway is implemented. + integrity. However, read-only IMAP and NNTP gateways are implemented. * As of 2016, git is widely used and known to nearly all Free Software developers. For non-developers it is packaged for all major GNU/Linux - and *BSD distributions. NNTP is not as widely-used nowadays. + and *BSD distributions. NNTP is not as widely-used nowadays, and + most IMAP clients do not have good support for read-only mailboxes. Why perl 5? ----------- @@ -142,6 +143,8 @@ What sucks about public-inbox * some (mostly GUI) mail clients cannot set In-Reply-To headers properly without the original message. +* marketing - as it should: + Scalability notes ----------------- @@ -151,5 +154,5 @@ problems solved. Copyright --------- -Copyright 2013-2021 all contributors +Copyright all contributors License: AGPL-3.0+