The message 0dba675e74e9f0dde1e7bd8a26d24fb5@bouncing.localnet from MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com contains these words:
On 2003-11-27 12:10:58 +0000 John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
I'm with Adam on this one I don't see anything wrong with the current name and the explanation of on the website and in the FAQ. Primarily we discuss linux kernel GNU systems.
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Kirsty TAAAW
I suggest that this is a bug and part of the reason why numbers are flattening out. We don't do enough user land stuff any more. It's all installs, distributions and kernels. Maybe I'm as much to blame, as I keep bringing broken machines to meetings (or, more exactly, the same machine, differently broken each time so far) and my last present was very low-level, but it would be nice to have more demos and more presents.
It was unfortunate that my preoccupations were on my own box and though there was a viable installation on it, more was added, little credit to my knowledge. Though it wasn't borked, I have to thank those who rallied round and gave me a new password and (possibly) a new username - can I remember? It won't be another nine months before I learn to do something useful in linux, honest folks.
(Have already fired-up and fiddled with Mozilla's HTML editor, and shall be importing files to mangle from my Winbox. Soon. [FDVOS])
Changing the name is suggested as a reminder to include other things. Maybe we should try for "ALUG's a Lively User Group" and see if that starts any fires.
I'm reluctant to stick an oar in here as I've only listed in this direction for a short time, thobut I've been meaning to ever since I knew there was a list.
I've been meaning to get into Linux for seven or eight years, and still have a Lasermoon FT distro from just after that time.
Ah! The road to hell is paved.....
However, FWIW, and before someone says "Well, why didn't you say so at the time?" I really can't see the point in changing the name of the group unless someone comes up with something so scintillating that there really is no option.
However laudable have been some of the suggestions, I don't think that point has been reached.
I'm a bit surprised by Adam on this, as I thought he was a GNUWinII fan and very concerned with user land things.