# HG changeset patch # User markus schnalke # Date 1337102389 -7200 # Node ID 2fea9739507f58e5e4fea3bd58ab5ac1283a9e77 # Parent 3e70450336a47757d379590550c87dd9e0d0d122 Added some refs to the preface. diff -r 3e70450336a4 -r 2fea9739507f preface.roff --- a/preface.roff Tue May 15 19:19:17 2012 +0200 +++ b/preface.roff Tue May 15 19:19:49 2012 +0200 @@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ But my proposal had activated the nmh community. In the following weeks, goals for nmh's future were discussed. In these discussions, I became involved in the -question whether nmh should be an MTA. (Thread subject: -``should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?''.) +question whether nmh should be an MTA. +.[ +nmh-workers thread mta mua +.] In this central point, my opinion differed from the opinion of most others. I argued for the MTA facility of nmh to be removed. Besides the discussions, hardly any real work was done. @@ -147,13 +149,31 @@ Further more, basic understanding of MIME is good to have. The Wikipedia provides good introduction-level information to email. Frequent references to the Unix philosophy will be made. -Gancarz had tried to sum the philosophy up in his book ``The UNIX Philosophy''. -Even better but less concrete are ``The UNIX Programming Environment'' and -``The Practice of Programming'' by Kernighan and Pike. -The term paper ``Why the Unix Philosophy still matters'' by myself +Gancarz had tried to sum the philosophy up in his book +``The UNIX Philosophy''. +.[ +gancarz unix phil +.] +Even better but less concrete are ``The UNIX Programming Environment'' +.[ +kernighan pike unix prog env +.] +and ``The Practice of Programming'' +.[ +kernighan pike practice of prog +.] +by Kernighan and Pike. +The term paper ``Why the Unix Philosophy still matters'' +.[ +why unix phil still matters schnalke +.] +by myself provides an overview on the topic, including a case study of MH. Although a brief introduction to MH is provided in Chapter 1, the reader is encouraged to have a look at the \fIMH Book\fP by Jerry Peek. +.[ +peek mh +.] It is the definitive guide to MH and nmh. The current version is available freely on the Internet. .P