X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fdesign_notes.txt;h=3df5af3e3cf204c7954830d22a0de8b7fbd1d5e1;hb=174588f860f4ecda1896559928b6c72bf2857832;hp=bc668da3709e6cf62215bbeddd1436b898b91abd;hpb=af0b0fb7a454470a32c452119d0392e0dedb3fe1;p=public-inbox.git diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index bc668da3..3df5af3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/design_notes.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Use existing infrastructure * public-inbox can coexist with existing mailing lists, any subscriber to the existing mailing list can begin delivering messages to - public-inbox-mda(1) + public-inbox-mda(1) or public-inbox-watch(1) * public-inbox uses SMTP for posting. Posting a message to a public-inbox instance is no different than sending a message to any _open_ mailing @@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ Why email? tools for for email, including: git-format-patch(1), git-send-email(1), git-am(1), git-imap-send(1). Furthermore, the development of git itself is based on the git mailing list: https://public-inbox.org/git/ - (or http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/git/ for Tor users) + (or + http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/git/ + for Tor users) * Email is already the de-facto form of communication in many Free Software communities.. @@ -70,11 +72,12 @@ Why git? * git is distributed and robust while being both fast and space-efficient with text data. NNTP was considered, but does not support delta-compression and places no guarantees on data/transport - integrity. However, a read-only NNTP gateway is implemented. + integrity. However, read-only IMAP and NNTP gateways are implemented. * As of 2016, git is widely used and known to nearly all Free Software developers. For non-developers it is packaged for all major GNU/Linux - and *BSD distributions. NNTP is not as widely-used nowadays. + and *BSD distributions. NNTP is not as widely-used nowadays, and + most IMAP clients do not have good support for read-only mailboxes. Why perl 5? ----------- @@ -140,6 +143,8 @@ What sucks about public-inbox * some (mostly GUI) mail clients cannot set In-Reply-To headers properly without the original message. +* marketing - as it should: + Scalability notes ----------------- @@ -149,5 +154,5 @@ problems solved. Copyright --------- -Copyright 2013-2021 all contributors +Copyright all contributors License: AGPL-3.0+