Shorter text, links to new page about the software.

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-<p>
- Hello and welcome to IRSpy
-</p>
-<p>
- ### Adam Horvath writes:
-</p>
-<blockquote>
- It is not clear what IRSpy tests? It should be described in the Home
- page. We tested e.g. our Yazproxy (to our Amicus' Z39.50 server) and
- thought that IRSpy would test it as an SRU server, but instead of
- that IRSpy tested the Amicus' Z39.50 server sending RPN's. We did not
- find any SRU or SRW target except the IRSspy own database. The
- Search:Title test was again a bib-1 search. We are confused.
-</blockquote>
+%# $Id: home.mc,v 1.7 2007-03-30 11:43:46 mike Exp $
+     <div class="essay">
+     <p>
+      <b>IRSpy</b> maintains a registry of information retrieval
+      targets supporting standard IR protocols such as
+      <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/"
+       >ANSI/NISO Z39.50 (ISO 23950)</a>
+      and
+      <a href="http://www.loc.gov/sru"
+       >the SRU/SRW web services</a>.
+      Each registry entry consists of both mechanical information,
+      such as the indexes supported for searching and the record
+      syntax and schemas supported for retrievel, and metadata such as
+      database titles, authors and descriptions.
+     </p>
+     <p>
+      Read more about
+      <a href="/software.html">the IRSpy software</a>.
+     </p>
+     </div>