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+# qotd
+A RFC 865 compliant Quote of the Day ~~daemon~~ program
+
+## Done
+* get random quote within file
+* tcp server
+* tcp client
+
+## Todo
+* udp server
+* udp client
+* t h r e a d s to accept several clients and/or run both udp and tcp servers from same executable
+* macros (#define XXX yyy) for currently hard-coded values
+* logging ?
+* conf files ?
+* switches (-x) and options (--xxxx) ?