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 <h1>Maintainers</h1>
 
 <ul>
-	<li>David Schleef <em>&lt;ds@schleef.org&gt;</em></li>
 	<li>Frank Mori Hess <em>&lt;fmhess@users.sourceforge.net&gt;</em></li>
 	<li>Ian Abbott <em>&lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;</em></li>
 </ul>
-
+<p>It is generally preferable to direct Comedi-related questions to the 
+<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comedi_list">mailing
+list</a> rather than mailing the maintainers directly. 
+</p>
 <p>
+Comedi was originally written and conceived by David Schleef <em>&lt;ds@schleef.org&gt;</em>.
 Much of Comedi has been developed by others.  See the AUTHORS files in
 <a href="http://www.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/comedi/AUTHORS">Comedi</a>
 and <a href="http://www.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/comedilib/AUTHORS">Comedilib</a>
-for a listing of contributors.
+for a more complete listing of contributors.
 </p>
 
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