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<m key="dc.title">AbiWord Help: Getting Help with AbiWord</m>
<m key="abiword.date_last_changed">Thu Mar 11 21:02:31 2004</m>
<m key="dc.creator">Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Various Authors</m>
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<p style="Heading 1"><c props="lang:en-US"></c>Getting Help</p>
<p style="Normal">You've checked the FAQ and the user's manual, and there's just no solving your problem. It's time to ask for help. There are a couple of ways to do this:</p>
<p style="Heading 2">User's Mailing List</p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">You can sign up for the AbiWord User's Mailing List by sending an email to abiword-user-request@abisource.com with "subscribe" in the message body.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">The user's list is configured so that only members can submit messages to it. This greatly reduces the amount of spam that reaches subscribers.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">We also host archives of this list.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">You can use this list to:</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">Please remember that this mailing list is a public forum and your postings will be read by many people.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">You will generally get responses within a day.</c></p>
<p style="Heading 2">Internet Relay Chat</p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US">Internet Relay Chat is a method of accessing online chat rooms, called "channels".</c><c props="lang:en-US"></c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">You can join AbiWord's IRC channel and talk to ask questions that you might have. Usually there are some developers in there who can help answer your questions.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">IRC Server: irc.gnome.org</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US">IRC Channel: #abiword</c><c props="lang:en-US"></c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">If you are not familiar with IRC, you might try the following resources:</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><a xlink:href="http://xchat.org/"><c props="lang:en-US">X-chat</c></a><c props="lang:en-US"> - Unix and Linux client, now available for Windows too.</c></p>
<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US"></c><c props="lang:en-US">The nice thing about IRC is that you can (usually) get answers to your questions immediately, instead of having to wait for the mailing list's turn around time.</c></p>
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