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 # pollen-users
-Questions & discussions pertaining to the Pollen publishing system
+
+This is the official discussion area / mailing-list substitute for Pollen, a book-publishing system written in Racket. 
+
+Questions, suggestions, announcements welcome. Your host: Matthew Butterick.
+
+This supersedes the `pollenpub` Google Group that was used from June 2015 – August 2019.
+
+### To read
+
+No login necessary. All activity happens under the [Issues](https://github.com/mbutterick/pollen-users/issues) tab.
+
+### To post
+
+You need a GitHub account (free; email address needed).
+
+
+### What kinds of topics can be posted here?
+
+Anything pertaining to using Pollen — questions, suggestions, feature requests, etc.
+
+
+### To receive email notification of responses
+
+If you start a new topic or add a response, you’ll automatically get email notification of subsequent messages posted to that thread.
+
+### To receive email notification of new topics as they are created
+
+That is, in the classic mailing-list style. At the top of the screen, use the “Watch” button to change your status to “Watching”.
+
+
+### Does this replace the Pollen source repository?
+
+No. That remains at https://github.com/mbutterick/pollen.
+
+
+### Should I post Pollen bugs here or there?
+
+Probably over there, though I’m not going to be finicky about it.
+
+
+### Why not have all the discussion threads over there?
+
+I prefer to restrict the issues in the Pollen source repository to coding-related tasks.
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