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           XEmacs Electronic Mailing Lists.  Last Modified: 1997-01-13

XEmacs has its own mailing list and newsgroup which are distinct from
the FSF GNU Emacs mailing lists and newsgroups.  The mailing list is:

   xemacs@xemacs.org    For reporting all bugs in XEmacs, including bugs
                        in the compilation and installation procedures.
                        Also for all random questions and conversation
                        about XEmacs.

This mailing list is bidirectionally gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup
comp.emacs.xemacs.

To be added or removed from this mailing list, send mail to
xemacs-request@xemacs.org (If it is possible for you to read the
messages via the newsgroup, we would prefer that; the fewer people there
are on the mailing list, the less trouble it is to maintain.)

Please do NOT send messages about problems with XEmacs to the FSF GNU
Emacs newsgroups and mailing lists (listed below) unless you are sure
that the problem you are reporting is a problem with both versions of
GNU Emacs.  People who aren't subscribed to the XEmacs mailing list most
likely are not interested in hearing about problems with it.

The XEmacs mailing list is archived at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/mlists/.

See the file etc/BETA for more information about mailing lists for use
by beta testers and XEmacs developers.

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT:

Aside from the names of the mailing lists and newsgroups corresponding
to this version of Emacs, the guidelines enumerated below still apply.
Please read them before sending a message.

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      GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists and gnUSENET Newsgroups
                         Last Updated 1 July 97

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