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+Welcome to Eressea
+------------------
+
+Playing Eressea in english is still a rather new thing (though some have 
+done it for almost a year), and there may be some issues left. If you find 
+any, please let us know. We're constantly trying to make Eressea a better 
+game.
+
+There is a newsgroup on news://eressea.upb.de/eressea.lang.en dealing 
+especially with the english language version, if you want to be more involved.
+You will need to log in with your faction's number and password to use this 
+server.
+
+The single most important thing to know is the help. You can find it at 
+http://eressea.upb.de/rules/en/ and should read it before you start playing.
+
+If you have a question or think you found a bug, please send it to 
+eressea-help@eressea.kn-bremen.de - the people reading those mails can filter 
+the requests, give answers to known problems or common questions, and in general 
+you'll get a very quick response. The exception are problems with your account 
+or with mailhandling, these you should send directly to 
+eressea-bugs@eressea.kn-bremen.de.
+
+
+We hope you enjoy the game,
+The Eressea Team