--- a/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex	Tue Jan 20 20:35:24 2009 +0100
+++ b/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex	Tue Jan 20 21:55:22 2009 +0100
@@ -130,7 +130,10 @@
 
 \sendmail\ designed to transfer mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible, though complex, configuration.
 
-It was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983. The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008. The program is distributed under the \name{Sendmail License} as both, \freesw\ and proprietary software.
+It was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983.
+%todo: write about its importance and about sendmail-compat
+
+The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008. The program is distributed under the \name{Sendmail License} as both, \freesw\ and proprietary software.
 
 Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} (the former name was \name{sendmail X}) which succeeds \sendmail.
 
@@ -170,7 +173,7 @@
 
 Today \postfix\ is taken by many \unix\ systems and \gnulinux\ distributions as default \MTA.
 
-The latest stable version is numbered 2.5.5 from August 2008. \postfix\ is covered by the \name{IBM Public License 1.0} which is a \freesw\ license.
+The latest stable version is numbered 2.5.6 from December 2008. \postfix\ is covered by the \name{IBM Public License 1.0} which is a \freesw\ license.
 
 Additional information can be retrieved from the program's homepage \citeweb{postfix:homepage}. \person{Dent}'s \postfix\ book \cite{dent04} claims to be ``the definitive guide'', and it is.
 
@@ -182,16 +185,16 @@
 \section{Comparison of MTAs}
 \label{sec:mta-comparison}
 
-This section does not try to provide an overall \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others. Remarkable comparisons are the one by \person{Dan Shearer} \cite{shearer06} and a discussion on the mailing list \name{plug@lists.q-linux.com} \cite{plug:mtas}. Tabular overviews may be found at \citeweb{mailsoftware42}, \citeweb{wikipedia:comparison-of-mail-servers}, and \cite[section 1.9]{lifewithqmail}.
+This section does not try to provide a throughout \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others. Remarkable comparisons are the one by \person{Dan Shearer} \cite{shearer06} and a discussion on the mailing list \name{plug@lists.q-linux.com} \cite{plug:mtas}. Tabular overviews may be found at \citeweb{mailsoftware42}, \citeweb{wikipedia:comparison-of-mail-servers}, and \cite[section 1.9]{lifewithqmail}.
 
-Here provided is an overview on important properties of the four previously introduced \MTA{}s. The data comes from the above stated sources and is collected in table \ref{tab:mta-comparison}.
+Here provided is an overview important properties of the four previously introduced \MTA{}s. The data comes from the above stated sources and is collected in table \ref{tab:mta-comparison}\footnote{The lines of code were messured with \person{David~A.\ Wheeler}'s \name{sloccount} \citeweb{sloccount}.}.
 
 \begin{table}
 % FIXME: improve table data!!!
 	\begin{center}
 		\input{tbl/mta-comparison.tbl}
 	\end{center}
-	\caption{Comparison of MTAs}
+	\caption{Comparison of \MTA{}s}
 	\label{tab:mta-comparison}
 \end{table}