-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of LUGE Admin Sent: 22 July 2004 17:02 To: alug Subject: Re: [ALUG] Linux User Group for Essex is here!
<rant> Look girls, the reason why I called myself admin is because a certain person no doubt would have moaned at me if I'd left my business sig on there and I couldn't think of anything else to call myself for the site, and every other lug seems to have an admin, and being the person that "administers" the site, I thought admin would be quite ideal. You can't win ;) I'm about as far away from a sysadmin as you can get, so the last thing I want to be called is admin. Big boy maybe, but that's another discussion entirely ;)
The reason why there's a website there instead of mailman is because that's what I do all day long, so instead of learning how to use something else, I thought I would provide an environment which has the capabilities to be useful, for example people adding their own links, downloads, news, content, etc. and be more welcoming for the new breed of Linux user we're seeing - as you say, be nice to the newbies (so why be an arse to the people who are trying to help?!).
From ALUG's site I thought there were regional ones which "link in" and
I presumed I would be one of those, and I hope we'll help each other.
Steve/admin/oddb0d/fatty/smelly/etc.
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Who give a s**t what you call yourselves. Have meetings, drink beer, talk about foss/gnu/linux. All sounds good to me. Good luck with it and if any of us aluggers can be of any help just shout on the list. I would hope that if any of us aluggers decide to turn up at your meetings to drink beer, talk about foss/gnu/linux you will make us as welcome as we will to you.
Cheers, BigJohn (who couldn't admin a p***up in a brewery but would have fun trying)