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[quom]

Closes#2878

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[quom]

I signed it!

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CLAs look good, thanks!

[daspecster]

@quom I tried to change the title of the PR to be more descriptive but I may have missed the mark. If you have better wording feel free to update!

[quom]

Updated it a bit - should have done something similar first time

[tseaver]

@quom Thanks very much for the patch!