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 Contact
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-For support requests, use the Astrid issue tracker. For development questions, contact [timsu](http://github.com/timsu) via e-mail.
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+For support requests, use the Astrid issue tracker. For development questions, contact [timsu](http://github.com/timsu) via e-mail.
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+Astrid also has an IRC channel, irc.freenode.net #astrid