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+Ian wrote at April 25, 2013:
+
+As you may have noted, there is currently a serious and ongoing outage affecting the fltk server.
+
+Whilst that is being restored, Greg has initiated a temporary group on Google Groups to monitor the situation.
+
+I've attempted to harvest addresses of a few recent posters that might be interested in dropping by...
+
+   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fltkgeneral
+
+The group name is fltk.general on groups.google.com (though the URL shows fltkgeneral without the . in it?)
+
+Sorry if you feel me mailing you direct was inappropriate...
+
+Cheers for now,
+-- Ian
+
+----------
+
+This file is to test FLTK svn connectivity, and to report ongoing success.
+It may be deleted when not needed anymore. Please feel free to add some
+text here for testing purposes and to inform people.
+
+Albrecht