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Mention that bug reports should be using the latest Org version if possible

Carsten Dominik 14 years ago
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@@ -727,10 +727,15 @@ active region by using the mouse to select a region, or pressing
 If you find problems with Org, or if you have questions, remarks, or ideas
 If you find problems with Org, or if you have questions, remarks, or ideas
 about it, please mail to the Org mailing list @email{emacs-orgmode@@gnu.org}.
 about it, please mail to the Org mailing list @email{emacs-orgmode@@gnu.org}.
 If you are not a member of the mailing list, your mail will be passed to the
 If you are not a member of the mailing list, your mail will be passed to the
-list after a moderator has approved it.
-
-For bug reports, please provide as much information as possible, including
-the version information of Emacs (@kbd{M-x emacs-version @key{RET}}) and Org
+list after a moderator has approved it@footnote{Please consider subscribing
+to the mailing list, in order to minimize the work the mailing list
+moderators have to do.}.
+
+For bug reports, please first try to reproduce the bug with the latest
+version of Org available - if you are running an outdated version, it is
+quite possible that the bug has been fixed already.  If the bug persists,
+prepare a report and provide as much information as possible, including the
+version information of Emacs (@kbd{M-x emacs-version @key{RET}}) and Org
 (@kbd{M-x org-version @key{RET}}), as well as the Org related setup in
 (@kbd{M-x org-version @key{RET}}), as well as the Org related setup in
 @file{.emacs}.  The easiest way to do this is to use the command
 @file{.emacs}.  The easiest way to do this is to use the command
 @example
 @example
@@ -749,7 +754,7 @@ about:
 @item What did you expect to happen?
 @item What did you expect to happen?
 @item What happened instead?
 @item What happened instead?
 @end enumerate
 @end enumerate
-@noindent Thank you for helping to improve this mode.
+@noindent Thank you for helping to improve this program.
 
 
 @subsubheading How to create a useful backtrace
 @subsubheading How to create a useful backtrace