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 on Stack Overflow licensing before posting any code.
 
 For technical discussions, please see [contact info](#contact) below for IRC and
-mailing list information.
+mailing list information. Please don't file an issue to ask a question. You'll
+get faster results by using the mailing list or IRC.
 
 ## Features of OpenBMC