Apparently README.rst overrides README, so this will show up instead
of our generic README on github.
If the user is already on github, then clicking a link for more
information is not a hardship.
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+If you're reading this on github.com, this is a read-only mirror of
+the notmuch project.
+
+For more information about the project, see http://notmuchmail.org.
+
+Please don't send us pull requests on github. If you have a feature
+branch that you want us to look at, use ``git send-email`` to it send
+to notmuch@notmuchmail.org.
+
+For more information about contributing to the project, see
+http://notmuchmail.org/contributing/.