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changeset 57:8776101db595

Intro: Fixed the history.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Sun, 20 May 2012 22:10:22 +0200
parents bb7c53767582
children 814c33b96d89
files ch01.roff
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+]
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     1.1 --- a/ch01.roff	Sun May 20 21:57:59 2012 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/ch01.roff	Sun May 20 22:10:22 2012 +0200
     1.3 @@ -41,31 +41,31 @@
     1.4  .P
     1.5  In the early Eighties,
     1.6  the University of California at Irvine (UCI) had started to use MH.
     1.7 -They also took over its development and pushed MH forward.
     1.8  Marshall T. Rose and John L. Romine became the driving force then.
     1.9 -This was the time when the Internet appeared, when UCB implemented
    1.10 -the TCP/IP stack, and when Allman wrote Sendmail.
    1.11 +They took over the development and pushed MH forward.
    1.12 +RAND had put the code into the public domain by then.
    1.13 +MH was developed at UCI at the time when the Internet appeared,
    1.14 +when UCB implemented the TCP/IP stack, and when Allman wrote Sendmail.
    1.15  MH was extended as emailing became more featured.
    1.16  The development of MH was closely related to the development of email
    1.17  RFCs. In the advent of MIME, MH was the first implementation of this new
    1.18  email standard.
    1.19  .P
    1.20 -In the Nineties, MH had been moved into the public domain, making it
    1.21 -attractive to Free Software developers.
    1.22 -The Internet had became popular and in December 1996,
    1.23 +In the Nineties, the Internet had become popular and in December 1996,
    1.24  Richard Coleman initiated the ``New Mail Handler'' (nmh) project.
    1.25 -The project is a fork of MH 6.8.3 and bases strongly on the
    1.26 +Nmh is a fork of MH 6.8.3 and bases strongly on the
    1.27  \fILBL changes\fP by Van Jacobson, Mike Karels and Craig Leres.
    1.28  Colman intended to modernize MH and improve its portability and
    1.29  MIME handling capabilities.
    1.30  This should be done openly within the Internet community.
    1.31  The development of MH at UCI stopped after the 6.8.4 release in
    1.32  February 1996, soon after the development of nmh had started.
    1.33 -Today, nmh almost completely replaces the original MH.
    1.34 +Today, nmh has almost completely replaced the original MH.
    1.35  Some systems might still provide old MH, but mainly for historical reasons.
    1.36  .P
    1.37  In the last years, the work on nmh was mostly maintenance work.
    1.38 -However, the development revived in December 2011 and stayed busy since then.
    1.39 +However, the development revived in December 2011
    1.40 +and stayed busy since then.
    1.41  
    1.42  .U2 "Concepts
    1.43  .P