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+If you're reading this on github.com, this is a read-only mirror of
+the notmuch project.
+
+For more information about the project, see http://notmuchmail.org.
+
+Please don't send us pull requests on github. If you have a feature
+branch that you want us to look at, use ``git send-email`` to it send
+to notmuch@notmuchmail.org.
+
+For more information about contributing to the project, see
+http://notmuchmail.org/contributing/.