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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index ae45d54d..c856511c 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $ </table> <HR> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ program isn't perfect, but it's trying.<P> <H1>The most-requested features that I will never add, and why not:</H1> -<H2>1. Password encryption in .fetchmailrc</H2> +<H2>Password encryption in .fetchmailrc</H2> The reason there's no facility to store passwords encrypted in the .fetchmailrc file is because this doesn't actually add protection.<P> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ they're not portable.<P> I've thought about this a lot and roughed up several designs. All are complicated and fragile, with a bunch of the standard problems (what happens if a fetchmail aborts before clearing its semaphore, and how -do we recover reliably?)<P>. +do we recover reliably?).<P> I'm just not satisfied that there's enough functional gain here to pay for the large increase in complexity that adding these semaphores @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ following minimum steps. forget the <code>%token</code> declaration. <LI>Pick a long-form option name, and a one-letter short option if any - are left. Go to <code>options.c</code>. Pick a new <code>LA_<code> + are left. Go to <code>options.c</code>. Pick a new <code>LA_</code> value. Hack the <code>longoptions</code> table to set up the association. Hack the big switch statement to set the option. Hack the `?' message to describe it. @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ a gift from the gods, and this is my expression of gratitude.<P> The beta testers didn't know it at the time, but they were also the subjects of a sociological experiment. The results are described in -my paper, <cite>The Cathedral And The Bazaar</cite>, available on the -<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail">Fetchmail home page</a>. +my paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral +And The Bazaar</A>. <H1>Credits</H1> @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Hochheiser, who gave me the idea of the SMTP-forwarding delivery mode.<P> Other significant contributors to the code have included Dave Bodenstab (error.c code and --syslog), George Sipe (--monitor and --interface), Gordon Matzigkeit (netrc.c), Al Longyear (UIDL support), Chris -Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), anc Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).<P> +Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), and Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).<P> <H1>Conclusion</H1> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |