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Wrote text for the Preface; changed headings in Preface and Introduction.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Wed, 09 May 2012 11:39:56 +0200
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     1.4  it headed to. This shall give an overview.
     1.5  
     1.6  
     1.7 -.H1 "Email Prerequisites
     1.8 -.P
     1.9 -XXX Do we really need that?
    1.10 -
    1.11 -
    1.12 -.H1 "What is MH?
    1.13 +.H1 "MH \(en the Mail Handler
    1.14  .P
    1.15  MH is an electronic mail system, originating in the RAND Corporation.
    1.16  Historically, it had been a all-in-one mail system, with both Mail Transfer
    1.17 @@ -109,7 +104,7 @@
    1.18  and old MH. The look'n'feel is common among them.
    1.19  
    1.20  
    1.21 -.H1 "Understanding the Code and Community
    1.22 +.H1 "nmh: Code and Community
    1.23  .P
    1.24  In order to understand the state, goals and dynamics of a project,
    1.25  one needs to know its history. MH comes from a time before the
    1.26 @@ -157,6 +152,19 @@
    1.27  
    1.28  
    1.29  .H1 "mmh
    1.30 +.P
    1.31 +I started to work on my experimental version, which I call
    1.32 +\fImmh\fP (for \fImeillo's mail handler\fP), in Fall 2011.
    1.33 +In December, when I announced that I would work on an experimental
    1.34 +version, the activity in nmh suddenly rose. Suddently the community
    1.35 +started to move.
    1.36 +After long years of mostly idling, nmh became actively developed again.
    1.37 +What a great result!
    1.38 +Hence, while I was working on mmh, the community was working on nmh
    1.39 +too. My own work went in parallel and mostly unrelated.
    1.40 +.P
    1.41 +Because of several circumstances, my experimental version is rather
    1.42 +a fork today, although this may change again in the future.
    1.43  
    1.44  .U2 "Motivation
    1.45  .P