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249:============================================== Fooutils 0.9.42 Beta Released -- 2006 Feb 16 ============================================== ANNOUNCING Fooutils v0.2.12beta, the first beta release. About Fooutils -------------- Fooutils are a set of utilities that... Changes ------- Improved the searching facility by including... Fixed bugs: #123, #456, ... Resources --------- Homepage: http://fooutils.org Documentation: http://fooutils.org/docs Download: http://fooutils.org/download Bug Tracker: http://fooutils.org/newticket Mailing Lists: http://lists.fooutils.org/ 36: 190:
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announcement recipients often have a name like "comp.
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verification
improve this article
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"Announcement" computing
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scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
Usenet
mailing list
e-mail
software
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Newsgroup
Mailing list
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changelog
bug tracking system
plain text
subject line
List of e-mail subject abbreviations
"Free Software Project Management HOWTO"
Linux Documentation Project
Categories
Free software culture and documents
Technical communication

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