Formatting and development note

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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 * [License](COPYING): GNU GPL v2
 * [Guidelines](GUIDELINES)
 
+*NOTE:* Firma development is currently on hold, but patches and pull requests are still
+accepted. Please check [schleuder](http://schleuder2.nadir.org) for an alternative.
+
 Getting the code
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@@ -28,8 +31,8 @@ files are written during a message processing and no default message archive,
 so no messages -- encrypted or not -- rest on your system in all steps of the
 process.
 
-Everyone has the private key X The server has the private key
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+Architecture
+------------
 
 When using a encrypted mailing list software, one must choose between keeping
 the private key in the server or send it to each of the subscribers. We'll not
@@ -66,14 +69,14 @@ These two approaches has a similar external hole of some private key turned
 public. Designing Firma, we decided for the centralized model, for three main
 reasons:
 
-1 - A server can be safer than any user's ordinary computer.
+1. A server can be safer than any user's ordinary computer.
 
-2 - Automation: when some user is removed from the list, we just remove their
-key from the list keyring; in the decentralized approach, the list admin needs
-to regenerate a new list keypair, otherwise the unsubscribed user can still
-decrypt list messages if he can sniff the mail server traffic.
+2. Automation: when some user is removed from the list, we just remove their
+   key from the list keyring; in the decentralized approach, the list admin needs
+   to regenerate a new list keypair, otherwise the unsubscribed user can still
+   decrypt list messages if he can sniff the mail server traffic.
 
-3 - Use a public-key and all info stored onto it as the subscriber info.
+3. Use a public-key and all info stored onto it as the subscriber info.
 
 Why Bash
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