So I'm trying to figure out why you're quiblbing about punctuation of an obsolete draft of the release announcement. The current draft simply starts with this, no punctuation needed: The Debian Project is pleased to announce the release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.0. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org