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  <LI><A HREF="#mail" NAME="TOCmail">Mailing lists</A>
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<H3><A HREF="#TOCmail" NAME="mail">Mailing lists</A></H3>
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Note that you do <em>not</em> need to be subscribed to post to any of the
following mailing lists: you're message will be approved even if you're not a
member of the mailing list and people are advised to keep you in the
<samp>Cc</samp> list.
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If you have questions about the installation, how the Hurd works and
how it is used, or general questions concerning the Hurd, GNU&nbsp;Mach or
the other packages maintained by the Hurd people, you can send an
email to the <a
HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd">Help-Hurd</A> <A
HREF="mailto:help-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;help-hurd@gnu.org&gt;</A> mailing
list.
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Bug reports for the GNU&nbsp;Hurd, GNU&nbsp;Mach and the other packages
maintained by the Hurd people, as well as development issues should be sent to
the <a
HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd">Bug-Hurd</A> <A
HREF="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;bug-hurd@gnu.org&gt;</A> mailing
list.
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All emails concerning the Debian&nbsp;GNU/Hurd binary distribution should
go to the
<A HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/">Debian GNU/Hurd</A>
<A HREF="mailto:debian-hurd@lists.debian.org">&lt;debian-hurd@lists.debian.org&gt;</A>
mailing list.
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If you want to contribute to the development of the Hurd, look at the
<A HREF="/software/hurd/devel.html">Development page</A>.

<p>Discussion about the future direction of the GNU&nbsp;Hurd takes place on
the <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd">L4-hurd</a> <a
href="mailto:l4-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;l4-hurd@gnu.org&gt;</a> mailing list.

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If you have a concern you want to send to the Hurd maintainers without writing
to a public mailing list, then please send email to <a
href="mailto:hurd-maintainers@gnu.org">&lt;hurd-maintainers@gnu.org&gt;</a>,
but please use the <a
href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd">Bug-Hurd</a> <a
href="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org">&lt;bug-hurd@gnu.org&gt;</a> mailing list, if
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<H3><A HREF="#TOCirc" NAME="irc">Internet relay chat</A></H3>
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The GNU Project uses
<A HREF="http://www.freenode.net/">Freenode</A> as it's official IRC
network.  The network of IRC servers can be accessed through
<SAMP>irc.gnu.org</SAMP>.  The channel <SAMP>#hurd</SAMP> is
dedicated to the Hurd.  You can find other users and developers
interested in the Hurd there and chat with them in real time.
Further information is available on <a
href="http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/HurdIRC">this wiki page</a>.

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