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 Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.
 
 Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
-large collections of email messages. It uses the Xapian library to
-provide fast, full-text search of very large collection of email with
-a very convenient search syntas.
+large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
+the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
+search syntax.
 
 Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
 License version 3 (or later).
@@ -18,11 +18,15 @@ The website for Notmuch is:
 
        http://notmuchmail.org
 
-We will soon be creating a mailing list for users and developers of
-notmuch. Details will appear on the website. Until then, please feel
-free to email Carl with any questions you have:
+The mailing list address for the notmuch community is:
 
-       Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+       notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+
+We welcome any sort of questions, comments, kudos, or code there.
+
+Subscription is not required, (but if you do subscribe you'll avoid
+any delay due to moderation). See the website for subscription
+information.
 
 There is also an IRC channel dedicated to talk about using and
 developing notmuch:
@@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ obtaining a more sophisticated interface:
        notmuch.el file in this distribution.
 
        If someone were to write a curses-based interface, or similar,
-       it might also be reasonable to buil on the "notmuch"
+       it might also be reasonable to build on the "notmuch"
        command-line interface.
 
      2. Build on top of the notmuch library interface.
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 As can be seen, alternate interfaces to the Notmuch mail system are
 still in development. We would appreciate any contributions to these
 efforts.
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