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This is a list of the main goals and visions 50 that the author of Binc IMAP has put to ground. 51 52 <UL> 53 <LI>Helpful, hospitable community 54 <UL> 55 <LI>Although it is expected that users of Binc IMAP do their homework before posting, the server author 56 and community of the Binc IMAP mailing list will be friendly and will approach everyone with respect. 57 The same is expected from those who post to the list.</LI> 58 <LI>There will be no RTFM on the project's mailing list. Flaming and personal insults on the project's mailing list will result in banning of the originator.</LI> 59 <LI>The community is encouraged to pay back to the project's contributors by <B>sharing</B> their own 60 contributions to Binc IMAP through the GPL license.</LI> 61 </UL> 62 </LI> 63 <LI>Security through good design 64 <UL> 65 <LI>A well designed server is <U>less exposed to bugs</U> than a poorly designed server.</LI> 66 <LI>The server will strive to use <U>every kind of security enhancing feature</U>, while 67 keeping the implementation details as simple as possible.</LI> 68 <LI><U>The source is open</U> and downloadable. Potential bugs and/or nasty pieces of 69 code are easily uncovered when the whole community is able to study every line of 70 code in detail. Bugs should always be reported to the project's mailing list.</LI> 71 </UL> 72 </LI> 73 <LI>No competition 74 <UL> 75 <LI>Under no circumstance will this project be in market driven competition with other 76 IMAP servers.</LI> 77 <LI>Binc IMAP is first and foremost a <U>quality driven project</U>.</LI> 78 <LI>This project is meant to <U><I>influence</I> the community</U> of authors of 79 network protocols and servers, and hopes to increase the general quality 80 of software that is used all over the globe and beyond.</LI> 81 </UL> 82 </LI> 83 <LI>Modularity 84 <UL> 85 <LI><B>Binary modularity</B> 86 <P><U>Pluggable extension support.</U> Modules that are loaded into Binc can change a 87 great deal of Binc's behavior. Adding your own extension or altering Binc 88 IMAP's behavior should be as easy as it can get, and it should not require a 89 recompile of the Binc IMAP core.</P> 90 <P><U>Pluggable authentication support.</U> By supporting <B>checkpassword</B> 91 compatible authentication modules, Binc IMAP clients can authenticate against great 92 number of authorities.</P> 93 </LI> 94 <LI><B>Source modularity</B> 95 <P>With a modular and simple yet advanced object oriented design, it should be 96 easy to quickly understand what every method and function does. This will 97 increase third party developers' ability to write extensions and modifications fast.</P> 98 <P>Development of the design and implementation of Binc IMAP will focus on 99 <U>extensibility, robustness and speed</U>. 100 </LI> 101 102 </UL> 103 </LI> 104 <LI>Quality over quantity 105 <UL> 106 <LI>Binc IMAP's releases are milestones. We strive for perfection.</LI> 107 <LI>Work on improving the existing design and extensibility will always go ahead of 108 adding new features.</LI> 109 <LI>Through extensive module support, the community is encouraged to contribute 110 to the adding and testing of new features. Core design and implementation will 111 always focus on quality.</LI> 112 </UL> 113 </LI> 114 </UL> 115 116 <HR> 117 Last updated: 2003-03-24 118 119 120 </BLOCKQUOTE> 121 122 <TABLE WIDTH="99%" ALIGN="CENTER" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="4"> 123 <TR> 124 <TD CLASS="bodytext" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"></TD> 125 </TR> 126 <TR> 127 <TD CLASS="headtext" BGCOLOR="#226666"> 128 <A HREF="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"> 129 <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" 130 ALT="Valid HTML 4.01!" 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