Re: your mail

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@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
 available at <https://public-inbox.org/git/>,
 <http://marc.info/?l=git> and other archival sites.

+You don't need to be subscribed to the list to send mail to it, and
+others on-list will generally CC you when replying (although some
+forget this). It's adviced to subscribe to the list if you want to be
+sure you're not missing follow-up discussion, or if your interest in
+the project is wider than a one-off bug report, question or patch.
+
 The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that
 list the current status of various development topics to the mailing
 list.  The discussion following them give a good reference for