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-<!--- More than 50 issues open? Please don't file any new feature requests -->
-<!--- Help us reduce the work first :-) -->
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-## Expected Behavior
-<!--- If you're describing a bug, tell us what should happen -->
-<!--- If you're suggesting a change/improvement, tell us how it should work -->
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-## Current Behavior
-<!--- If describing a bug, tell us what happens instead of the expected behavior -->
-<!--- If suggesting a change/improvement, explain the difference from current behavior -->
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-## Possible Solution
-<!--- Not obligatory, but suggest a fix/reason for the bug, -->
-<!--- or ideas how to implement the addition or change -->
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-## Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
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-## Context
-<!--- How has this issue affected you? What are you trying to accomplish? -->
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-## Environment
-* Give us the version and build information output generated by `profanity -v`
-* If you could not yet build profanity, mention the revision you try to build from
-* Operating System/Distribution
-* glib version
-* libstrophe version
-* Some bugs might be due to specific implementation in the server. `/serversoftware example.domain` can be helpful
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