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What is genuinely worth writing about

• A correction. The most useful mail this site gets. If you can point at the source that shows the error, the fix and the source both land on Corrections, dated. If you cannot, send it anyway — finding the source is my job, not yours.
• A primary source I do not have. Release announcements, changelogs, mailing-list threads, old screenshots you took yourself, a mirror that still answers, a checksum file, a build log. Records beat recollections, but recollections tell me which records to go looking for.
• You were there. If you ran, packaged, mirrored, moderated or argued with any of the projects covered here, and something on the site reads wrong to you, say so. Being present is not the same as being right, and it is not automatically publishable, but it is always worth hearing.
• A rights or privacy concern. If something published here reproduces your work, or names you in a way you object to, write and say which page and which sentence. That gets looked at ahead of everything else.

How the pages and their links get made

Every article here is researched and written for this site, and every outbound link is picked from the sources under the sentence it sits in. That is the whole editorial process, and it is worth stating because most of the mail that is not a correction is a proposal to add a link by some other route.

If a link on this site is dead, name it and it gets fixed from the same records the original came from. If you are after a disc image, the release history lists the mirrors and archives that still serve the surviving files.

How long a reply takes

This is a small publication and messages are answered in batches. A correction with a source usually gets a reply within a few days. A long piece of history, or something that needs checking against archives, can take a couple of weeks. Replies go out where there is something worth saying in reply.

What happens to your message

Your message is read and kept while the correspondence is useful. Privacy lists each field the form stores, why it is stored, and how long it is held.

If a correction of yours changes a page, the entry on Corrections credits you however you ask to be credited in the message: by name, under a handle, or not at all.