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@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Tests are good, but slow tests make development slow, so we make tests
 faster (in parallel) with GNU make (instead of Rake) and avoiding
 RubyGems.
 
-Users of GNU-based systems (such as GNU/Linux) usually have GNU make installed
-as "make" instead of "gmake".
+Users of GNU-based systems (such as GNU/Linux) usually have GNU make
+installed as "make" instead of "gmake".
 
 Since we don't load RubyGems by default, loading Rack properly requires
 setting up RUBYLIB to point to where Rack is located.  Not loading
@@ -57,11 +57,18 @@ programming experience will come in handy (or be learned) here.
 
 === Documentation
 
-We use RDoc 2.4.x with Darkfish for documentation as much as possible,
+We use RDoc 2.5.x with Darkfish for documentation as much as possible,
 if you're on Ruby 1.8 you want to install the latest "rdoc" gem.  Due to
 the lack of RDoc-to-manpage converters we know about, we're writing
 manpages in Markdown and converting to troff/HTML with Pandoc.
 
+Please wrap documentation at 72 characters-per-line or less (long URLs
+are exempt) so it is comfortably readable from terminals.
+
+When referencing mailing list posts, use
+"http://mid.gmane.org/$MESSAGE_ID" if possible since the Message-ID
+remains searchable even if Gmane becomes unavailable.
+
 === Ruby/C Compatibility
 
 We target Ruby 1.8.6+, 1.9 and will target Rubinius as it becomes