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-2003-11-29
+2003-12-01
 	ALBERTA 1.2 -- not yet released
 
 	Renamed from ALBERT to ALBERTA (copyright issues)
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 	Removed:
 	- distributed BLAS library
+
+	Support:
+	- ALBERTA now has a mailing list at
+
+	http://www.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/IAM/ALBERTA/mailinglist.html