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+================================================
+Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
+================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 1998-2010 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This is GNU Mailman, a mailing list management system distributed under the
+terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.  The name of
+this software is spelled "Mailman" with a leading capital `M' but with a lower
+case second `m'.  Any other spelling is incorrect.
+
+Mailman is written in Python which is available for all platforms that Mailman
+is supported on, including GNU/Linux and most other Unix-like operating
+systems (e.g. Solaris, *BSD, MacOSX, etc.).  It does not run on Windows,
+although web and mail clients on any platform should be able to interact with
+Mailman just fine.
+
+The Mailman home page is:
+
+    http://www.list.org
+
+and there is a community driven wiki at
+
+    http://wiki.list.org
+
+For more information on Mailman, see the above web sites, or the documentation
+provided with this software.
+
+This is the experimental web user interface.