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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2014-05-30 06:51:49 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2014-05-30 06:51:49 +0000
commite597191a248ea128b1fa8e20740ed943135ca576 (patch)
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downloadpublic-inbox-e597191a248ea128b1fa8e20740ed943135ca576.tar.gz
Marketing is hard!
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@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 public-inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 public-inbox implements the sharing of an email inbox via git to
-complement or replace traditional mailing lists.
+complement or replace traditional mailing lists.  Readers may
+subscribe to a mailing list using ssoma[1] (a git-wrapper) to
+import email from a git repository into an IMAP folder, Maildir,
+or mbox.  Readers may also read via Atom feeds and HTML archives.
 
 public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
 
@@ -15,16 +18,6 @@ public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
 public-inbox aims to be easy-to-deploy and manage; encouraging projects
 to run their own instances with minimal overhead.
 
-Features
---------
-* anybody may participate via plain-text email
-* stores email in git, readers have a complete archive of the inbox
-* Atom feed allows casual readers to follow via feed reader
-* Mail user-agent (MUA) users may use Maildir, mbox(5) and/or IMAP locally
-* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
-
-Try it out now, see http://try.public-inbox.org/
-
 Implementation
 --------------
 public-inbox uses ssoma[1], Some Sort Of Mail Archiver which implements
@@ -53,6 +46,16 @@ a public-inbox git archive to subscribers via SMTP.
 
 [1] http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/
 
+Features
+--------
+* anybody may participate via plain-text email
+* stores email in git, readers have a complete archive of the inbox
+* Atom feed allows casual readers to follow via feed reader
+* Mail user-agent (MUA) users may use Maildir, mbox(5) and/or IMAP locally
+* uses only well-documented and easy-to-implement data formats
+
+Try it out now, see http://try.public-inbox.org/
+
 Requirements (Atom, read-only client)
 -------------------------------------
 * any feed reader capable of following Atom feeds