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+UPDATE, now that we have automatic mail from trac to tahoe-dev, maybe it would be better to attach patches to trac.
+
 On the [/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev tahoe-dev mailing list], Zooko suggests:
 
 > I really like using the mailing list for patches, because the mailing