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-This directory is intended to hold third-party contributions.
-
-- mboxgrep.spec is an RPM spec file, kindly contributed by 
-		Vaclav Slavik <v.slavik@volny.cz>
-
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+This directory is intended to hold third-party contributions.
+
+- mboxgrep.spec is an RPM spec file, kindly contributed by Vaclav Slavik <v.slavik AT volny.cz>