"Wayne" == Wayne Schlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wayne> To the best of my knowledge, the LSB lists have never been Wayne> *closed* to the general public. I have been subscribed to them Wayne> for months, and I found out about them by reading /., Wayne> debian-devel, and looking at a few web pages.
Historical note: the original LSB list predates this, set up by Bruce in July and including just a few distribution and ISV representatives -- most of whom had met in person at the Expo in May. It was closed, but did have Debian people on it (and was run on one of our mail servers). After he resigned in August, Debian and Red Hat quickly agreed to continue creation of a written standard under the name LCS. Up until then the LSB was focused mainly on creating a reference implantation, not the specification we wanted. But the remaining members of the LSB wanted a written spec too, so LCS merged back into LSB again, becoming a subproject. Project leadership was reorganized under Dan Quinlan who opened up the lists on August 24. There were some press releases and /. postings about this, which in addition to reassuring everyone was also meant to crush the LSA, which was effective. (The LSA situation at that time had achieved Crisis status on IRC.) The rest is on the web archives at linuxbase.org, housed at Transmeta. Debian still manages the LSBs actual mailing lists. --------------------- PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _ Debian GNU Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mm mm / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ "netgod" irc.debian.org mm mm / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / m m m / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Yes, I'm Linus, and I am your God. mm mm \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- Linus, keynote address, Expo 98 GO BLUE