add note about sending mail to lists

diff --git a/lists/procedures.mdwn b/lists/procedures.mdwn
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-Look below for guidance on how to handle granting and using list permissions. If something seems to be missing, please add it. (In particular, if somebody fails at following oral tradition, please record the oral tradition so that later folks *do* follow it.) If something seems wrong, please bring it up in a reasonable forum and then fix it.
+Look below for guidance on how to handle granting and using list permissions. If something seems to be missing, please add it. (In particular, if somebody fails at following oral tradition, please record the oral tradition so that later folks *do* follow it.) If something seems wrong, please bring it up in a reasonable forum and then fix it. As a general principle, sending mail to a list when you modify it (or before you do, to get consensus a change is good) is a decent plan, though standards vary between lists.

 
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