doc: various cleanups all around

[public-inbox.git] / Documentation / design_notes.txt

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 Design notes and philosophy
 ---------------------------
 
+public-inbox spawned around some basic ideas
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Public, non-real-time, archivable communication is essential to
+  Free and Open Source software development.
+
+* Contributing to Free and Open Source projects should not require the
+  use of non-Free/non-Open Source services or software.
+
+* Graphical user interfaces should not be required for text-based
+  communication.
+
 Challenges to running normal mailing lists
 ------------------------------------------
 1) spam
@@ -61,6 +73,12 @@ Why email?
   public-inbox host becomes unavailable, users may still directly email
   each other (or Cc: lists for related/dependent projects).
 
+Notes
+-----
+
+* Expose Message-ID in HTML views to encourage replies from drive-by
+  contributors
+
 Copyright
 ---------
 Copyright 2013, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors.