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diff preface.roff @ 34:2fea9739507f

Added some refs to the preface.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
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