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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="anarcat"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/4ad594c1e13211c1ad9edb81ce5110b7"
+ subject="thanks!"
+ date="2019-06-17T20:17:26Z"
+ content="""
+thanks so much for this work! it's something I had identified as an annoyance in the conversation around [[forum/does_git-annex_parallelize_different_remotes__63__]] and I'm really happy to see you're working on this! so yeah, thanks again! :)
+"""]]