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author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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date | Tue, 15 May 2012 19:19:49 +0200 |
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1.1 --- a/preface.roff Tue May 15 19:19:17 2012 +0200 1.2 +++ b/preface.roff Tue May 15 19:19:49 2012 +0200 1.3 @@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ 1.4 But my proposal had activated the nmh community. 1.5 In the following weeks, goals for nmh's future were discussed. 1.6 In these discussions, I became involved in the 1.7 -question whether nmh should be an MTA. (Thread subject: 1.8 -``should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?''.) 1.9 +question whether nmh should be an MTA. 1.10 +.[ 1.11 +nmh-workers thread mta mua 1.12 +.] 1.13 In this central point, my opinion differed from the opinion of most others. 1.14 I argued for the MTA facility of nmh to be removed. 1.15 Besides the discussions, hardly any real work was done. 1.16 @@ -147,13 +149,31 @@ 1.17 Further more, basic understanding of MIME is good to have. 1.18 The Wikipedia provides good introduction-level information to email. 1.19 Frequent references to the Unix philosophy will be made. 1.20 -Gancarz had tried to sum the philosophy up in his book ``The UNIX Philosophy''. 1.21 -Even better but less concrete are ``The UNIX Programming Environment'' and 1.22 -``The Practice of Programming'' by Kernighan and Pike. 1.23 -The term paper ``Why the Unix Philosophy still matters'' by myself 1.24 +Gancarz had tried to sum the philosophy up in his book 1.25 +``The UNIX Philosophy''. 1.26 +.[ 1.27 +gancarz unix phil 1.28 +.] 1.29 +Even better but less concrete are ``The UNIX Programming Environment'' 1.30 +.[ 1.31 +kernighan pike unix prog env 1.32 +.] 1.33 +and ``The Practice of Programming'' 1.34 +.[ 1.35 +kernighan pike practice of prog 1.36 +.] 1.37 +by Kernighan and Pike. 1.38 +The term paper ``Why the Unix Philosophy still matters'' 1.39 +.[ 1.40 +why unix phil still matters schnalke 1.41 +.] 1.42 +by myself 1.43 provides an overview on the topic, including a case study of MH. 1.44 Although a brief introduction to MH is provided in Chapter 1, the reader 1.45 is encouraged to have a look at the \fIMH Book\fP by Jerry Peek. 1.46 +.[ 1.47 +peek mh 1.48 +.] 1.49 It is the definitive guide to MH and nmh. 1.50 The current version is available freely on the Internet. 1.51 .P