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Hi List,
I'm new here and want to get involved/informed. Is there a
searchable archive or some summary of what has been going on here?
I couldn't get google to do a job on the archive and reading all
the posts one by one... is surely getting me somewhere but _very_ slowly
I read a post suggesting that a Wiki should be set up but I don't
know if that actually happened.

Birger