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author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-11-04 03:40:33 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-11-04 07:03:48 +0000 |
commit | 174588f860f4ecda1896559928b6c72bf2857832 (patch) | |
tree | 4434208a83f73c2b22dc6f3703820875b4de9aae /Documentation | |
parent | afd4be5163b39050ac9892b8a511f11f417acf7b (diff) | |
download | public-inbox-174588f860f4ecda1896559928b6c72bf2857832.tar.gz |
public-inbox-imapd, public-inbox-watch, and marketing.txt all exist, now.
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1 files 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: <https://public-inbox.org/marketing.txt> + Scalability notes ----------------- @@ -151,5 +154,5 @@ problems solved. Copyright --------- -Copyright 2013-2021 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org> +Copyright all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org> License: AGPL-3.0+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt> |