diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 Thank you for your interest in contributing to urbit.
 
 See [urbit.org/docs/getting-started][start] for basic orientation and usage
-instructions.
+instructions.  You may also want to subscribe to [urbit-dev][list], the urbit
+development mailing list.
 
 [start]: https://urbit.org/docs/getting-started/#arvo