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</head><body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I saw this as well, and
thought the same thing. We should definitely try to develop some better
user-facing documentation, for those _new_ to Sugar.<br>
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<span>Walter Bender wrote on 3/11/19 3:43 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Could be quite useful.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div
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