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@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ I. Introduction
 
 ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
 is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
-Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
-generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
-"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
+Licence, see the file COPYING for details. ngIRCd means "next generation
+IRC daemon" (which is a little bit exaggerated, "lightweight Internet Relay
+Chat server" would be better), it's written from scratch and not deduced
+from the "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
 
 Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
 
@@ -43,12 +44,14 @@ WHOIS, WHOWAS.
 III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
-- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
-- freely published open-source C source code,
-- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
+- well arranged (lean) configuration file
+- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
+- supports IPv6 and SSL
+- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
+- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
 - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
   IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
+- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
 
 
 IV. Documentation
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ releases there.
 If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
 always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and
 the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
-system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git.or.cz/).
+system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/).
 
 
 VI. Bugs
@@ -82,5 +85,6 @@ them at the following URL:
 There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
 
 If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
-mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.ath.cx> (please see
-<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details).
+mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please see
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details) or join the ngIRCd
+IRC channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.