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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 
-                      (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
+                        (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
 
-                  ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter
-                       der GNU General Public License.
+               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
+                   terms of the GNU General Public License.
 
-                           -- README / Liesmich --
+                                -- README --
 
 
-ngIRCd ist ein Server fuer den Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Er ist von Grund
-auf neu geschrieben, also nicht wie die meisten anderen IRCd's vom Urvater,
-dem Daemon des IRCNet abgeleitet.
+I. Introduction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Zur Zeit befindet sich ngIRCd noch in Entwicklung, vieles ist noch nicht
-implementiert bzw. nur "halbherzig": Channels gibt es noch nicht, genau so
-wenig wie Server-Links. Das private Chatten (PRIVMSG) mit den Client-Befehlen
-/msg und /query sollte hingegen funktionieren, ein wenig praktische Funk-
-tionalitaet ist also tatsaechlich schon vorhanden ;-)
+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.
 
-Bisher (mehr oder wenig vollstaendig) implementierte IRC-Befehle:
+Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
 
-DIE, ERROR, ISON, JOIN, LINKS, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NOTICE, NJOIN,
-OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, USER,
-USERHOST, WHOIS.
 
-Ueber Rueckmeldungen, Bug-Reports und Patches freue ich mich! Also los, haut
-in die Tasten! :-))
+II. Status
+~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Via E-Mail erreichst du mich als <alex@arthur.ath.cx> bzw. <alex@barton.de>.
-Die Homepage des ngIRCd findest du unter <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/>.
+It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
+original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
+specified by the RFCs.
 
-[ ... more to come ... ]
+In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
+used in real IRC networks.
 
+Implemented IRC-commands are:
 
-Hinweise zur Installation findest du in der Datei INSTALL.
-Alle Autoren von ngIRCd sind in AUTHORS aufgefuehrt.
-In der Datei COPYING steht die GNU General Public License.
-Das README liest du gerade ,-)
+ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
+JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE,
+OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT,
+STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WALLOPS, WHO, WHOIS,
+WHOWAS.
 
 
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-$Id: README,v 1.4 2002/01/29 00:17:39 alex Exp $
+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.
+- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
+  IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
+
+
+IV. Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
+the ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.
+
+
+V. Download
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
+the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
+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/).
+
+
+VI. Bugs
+~~~~~~~~
+
+If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
+them at the following URL:
+
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/#bugs>
+
+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/#ml> for details).