From f54d72aaf1c6448a8dc8c713b8cab3f308c11385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 06:36:42 +0000 Subject: Plug Open Source. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1988 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 10 +++++++--- indexgen.sh | 17 +++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index d25a0d22..539a16e5 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/07/20 05:07:48 $ +$Date: 1998/07/20 06:36:42 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ industrial-strength tool capable of transparently handling every retrieval demand from those of a simple single-user ISP connection up to mail retrieval and rerouting for an entire client domain. Fetchmail is easy to configure, unobtrusive in operation, powerful, -feature-rich, and well documented. Extensive testing by a large, +feature-rich, and well documented.

+ +Fetchmail is Open Source +software. The openness of the sources is the strongest assurance of +quality you can have. Extensive peer review by a large, multi-platform user community has shown that fetchmail is as near bulletproof as the underlying protocols permit.

@@ -2046,7 +2050,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/07/20 05:07:48 $ +$Date: 1998/07/20 06:36:42 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index e72bbe8d..0b7a33df 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ cat >index.html <What fetchmail does: -Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented +Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ Fetchmail is fast and lightweight. It packs all its standard features (POP3, IMAP, and ETRN support) in less than 96K of core on a Pentium under Linux.

+Fetchmail is open-source +software. The openness of the sources is your strongest possible +assurance of quality and reliability.

+

Where to find out more about fetchmail:

See the Fetchmail Feature List for more @@ -174,11 +178,12 @@ The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the Linux development model works.

-I wrote a paper, The Cathedral -And The Bazaar, about these theories and the project. The paper -became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may have -actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above, to its -page.

+I wrote a paper, The +Cathedral And The Bazaar, about these theories and the project. +The paper became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may +have actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above, +to its page.

Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:

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