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List Rules

Subject Line
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Top-posts
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Overquoting
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In general, your reply should contain at least as much text as the amount of text you are quoting, if not more. Never quote back dozens of lines of text and simply add a single line of text to the bottom - people will *hate* you for that!
HTML Messages
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Message recycling
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Pseudo-legal disclaimers
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Off-topic
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The gpl-violations.org announce mailinglist

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