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diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 968e7bb1..e72bbe8d 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname: For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions, see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS</a> file.<p> -(Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kereberos, or -Compuserve RPA support compiled in. To get that you will have to -build from sources.)<p> +(Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kerberos, GSSAPI, +or Compuserve RPA support compiled in. To get any of these you will +have to build from sources.)<p> The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html"> @@ -160,13 +160,13 @@ S.u.S.e. Linux distributions include it. A customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP customers.<p> -Over five hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta -list. While it's hard to count free software users, we can estimate -based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known fetchmail -sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the -volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These estimates suggest -that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens of thousands, and -possibly over a hundred thousand.<p> +Over five hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list. +While it's hard to count the users of open-source software, we can +estimate based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known +fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, +and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These +estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens +of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.<p> <H1>The fetchmail paper:</H1> @@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ Linux development model works.<P> I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. The paper -became quite popular and may have actually helped change the world -(!). Chase the title link, above, to its page. <P> +became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may have +actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above, to its +page. <P> <H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H2> @@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ basically in maintainance mode.<p> Major changes or additions therefore seem unlikely until there are significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs. One development that would stimulate a new release almost instantly is the -development of a standard lightweight encrypted authentication method +deployment of a standard lightweight encrypted authentication method for IMAP sessions.<p> <H1>Where you can use fetchmail:</H1> |