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@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ See also the administrator documentation in:
 - [servers](servers) – how to manage the different servers, IRCd documentation, DNS, etc
 - [services](services) – how to manage services (NickServ, ChanServ, etc)
 - [todo](todo) – ever growing list of things to do on the network
+- [news](news) – old list of news item, deprecated, we use global
+  notices, mostly
 
 We also use an encrypted mailing list to coordinate,
 `ircd@lists.immerda.ch`, see [schleuder
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