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@@ -14,6 +14,42 @@ redirect_from:
 Qubes Mailing Lists
 ===================
 
+Staying Safe
+------------
+
+The Qubes mailing lists are open to the public. The contents of the list are
+crawled by search engines and archived by third-party services outside of our
+control. Please do not send anything to the mailing lists that you are not
+comfortable seeing discussed in public. If confidentiality is a concern, please
+use PGP encryption in an off-list email.
+
+The Qubes community includes people from all walks of life and from around the
+world. Individuals differ in areas of experience and technical expertise. You
+will come into contact with others whose views and agendas differ from your own.
+Everyone is free to write what they please, as long as it doesn't violate our
+[Code of Conduct][coc]. Be friendly and open, but do not believe everything you
+read. Use good judgment, and be especially careful when following instructions
+(e.g., copying commands) given by others on the lists.
+
+All official announcements from the [Qubes team] will be signed by the PGP key
+belonging to the team member who sends the announcement. However, anyone on the
+list can choose to sign their messages, so the presence of a PGP signature does
+not indicate authority. How, then, should you sort the good advice from the bad?
+This is up to each individual to decide, but it helps to know that many members
+of our community have proven themselves knowledgeable through their
+[contributions] to the project. Typically, these individuals sign their messages
+with the same key as (or another key authenticated by) the one they use to
+[sign their contributions][code-signing].
+
+For example, you might find it easier to trust advice from someone who has a
+proven track record of [contributing software packages] or [contributing to the
+documentation]. It's unlikely that individuals who have worked hard to build
+good reputations for themselves through their contributions over the years would
+risk giving malicious advice in signed messages to public mailing lists. Since
+every contribution to the Qubes OS Project is publicly visible and
+cryptographically signed, anyone would be in a position to [verify] that these
+came from the same keyholder.
+
 Discussion list guidelines
 --------------------------
 
@@ -75,7 +111,8 @@ guidelines.
    including many who post to the lists anonymously. (Given the integration of
    Qubes with [Whonix], we understand better than most the complexities of
    privacy and anonymity, and we know that many users have no other choice but
-   to post anonymously.) You can read our project's [Code of Conduct][coc] for more information.
+   to post anonymously.) You can read our project's [Code of Conduct][coc] for
+   more information.
 
 ### Specific rules and notes ###
 
@@ -362,6 +399,12 @@ You must be subscribed in order to post to this list.
      messages which were sent prior to your subscription to the list. However, a
      Google account is required in order to post through this interface.
 
+[Qubes team]: /team/
+[contributions]: /doc/contributing/
+[code-signing]: /doc/code-signing/
+[contributing software packages]: /doc/package-contributions/
+[contributing to the documentation]: /doc/doc-guidelines/
+[verify]: /security/verifying-signatures/
 [qsb]: /security/bulletins/
 [qubes-announce-web]: https://groups.google.com/group/qubes-announce
 [top-post]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
@@ -387,3 +430,4 @@ You must be subscribed in order to post to this list.
 [localization]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Alocalization
 [coc]: /code-of-conduct/
 [Transifex]: https://www.transifex.com/otf/qubes/
+