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The Emacs mailing lists are described at the Emacs Savannah page. Some of them are gatewayed to newsgroups.
The newsgroup news:comp.emacs is for discussion of Emacs programs in general. The newsgroup news:gnu.emacs.help is specifically for GNU Emacs. It therefore makes no sense to cross-post to both groups, since only one can be appropriate to any question.
Messages advocating “non-free” software are
considered unacceptable on any of the gnu.*
newsgroups except for news:gnu.misc.discuss, which was
created to hold the extensive flame-wars on the subject.
“Non-free” software includes any software for which
the end user can’t freely modify the source code and
exchange enhancements. Be careful to remove the
gnu.* groups from the
‘Newsgroups:’ line when posting a
followup that recommends such software.
news:gnu.emacs.bug is a place where bug reports appear, but avoid posting bug reports to this newsgroup directly (see Reporting bugs).