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-Ok, so you've decided to try out Supybot.  That's great!  The more people who
-use Supybot, the more people can submit bugs and help us to make it the best
-IRC bot in the world :)
+Ok, so you've decided to try out Supybot.  That's great!  The more
+people who use Supybot, the more people can submit bugs and help us to
+make it the best IRC bot in the world :)
 
-So what do you do?  First thing you'll want to do is run (with root
-privileges) "python setup.py install".  This will install Supybot globally.
+First things first: Supybot *requires* Python 2.3.  There ain't no
+getting around it.  If you're a Python developer, you probably know
+how superior 2.3 is to previous incarnations.  If you're not, just
+think about the difference between a bowl of plain vanilla ice cream
+and a banana split.  Or something like that.  Either way, *We're*
+Python developers and we like banana splits.
+
+So what do you do?  First thing you'll want to do is run (with
+root/admin privileges) "python setup.py install".  This will install
+Supybot globally.  If you need to install locally for whatever
+reason, see the addendum near the end of this document. 
 ### TODO: Local installs.
 ### TODO: Explain how to run tests?