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<h1>Contact us<a class="headerlink" href="#contact-us" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>You can get in touch with the Cassandra community either via the mailing lists or the freenode IRC channels.</p>
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<span id="id1"></span><h2>Mailing lists<a class="headerlink" href="#mailing-lists" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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