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diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index 71f6b77a..95f02556 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 @@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ Why email? There is no need to ask the NSA for backups of your mail archives :) * git, one of the most widely-used version control systems, includes many - tools for for email, including: git-format-patch(1), git-send-email(1), + tools for email, including: git-format-patch(1), git-send-email(1), git-am(1), git-imap-send(1). Furthermore, the development of git itself is based on the git mailing list: https://public-inbox.org/git/ (or http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/git/ - for Tor users) + for Tor users). * Email is already the de-facto form of communication in many Free Software - communities.. + communities. * Fallback/transition to private email and other lists, in case the public-inbox host becomes unavailable, users may still directly email @@ -72,16 +72,17 @@ 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? ----------- -* Perl 5 is widely available on modern *nix systems with good a history +* Perl 5 is widely available on modern *nix systems, with a good history of backwards and forward compatibility. * git and SpamAssassin both use it, so it should be one less thing for @@ -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> |