InfoHelp wrote:
What name do you prefer for our GLUG:
a) Canterbury GNU/Linux Users Group (CGLUG)
b) GNU/Linux Users Group of Waitaha/Canterbury (GLUGOWC)
c) Other (please specify) _______________________________
What, no option d) CLUG, the name we've had for ages already?
FYI, the history of the name goes like this:
On 11 Feb 1997, the first occurrence of the phrase "Canterbury Linux Users Group" occurred in a message posted to the list by the then list maintainer Mark Aitchison.
Back in 1998, we have another message from Mark Aitchison:
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:05:24 +1200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr M S Aitchison) Subject: The linux-users mailing list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: University of Canterbury Linux Users
The mailing list now sets the reply-to: line in the header, so beware. Some people have asked me to enable this option, and it is common on mailing lists I'm subscribed to, so please try it for a while before petitioning for it to go :-}
Some information about getting on/off the mailing list is on my web page:
www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~physmsa/linux/usersgroup/index.html
I have processed quite a few subscriptions recently - the total is now about 45 on the list.
Note his Comment header. The name could have been UCLU, but this was not to be....
I have no idea what was on that web page, though.
I requested feedback from a meeting I organised in 1998, and got a suggestion to name the group CLUG, from Dave Pemberton (19 Aug 1998).
This was a private email, so the 4 letters "CLUG" had not made their presence on the list. Other naming suggestions by various users were "Linux users group", "canterbury-linux-users", "LUG Christchurch", "Cult of the Live Penguin", by Chris Edsall. As you can see, apart from Mr. Edsall, we weren't a very creative bunch when it came to names; we were happy with something generic. There was no real outcome of this exercise, BTW. Nobody wanted to stand up and be "The Decision Maker".
Ryurick M. Hristev first used the name "Canterbury LUG" in his To: field on 16 Nov 2000
Around this time, other linux users groups began acronymising: dunlug, vlug, nzlug, slug (Sydney).
Nick Rout posted a message to the group 31 Jan 2001, and his To: header had CLUG as the name for the mailing list address.
Nick posted again on 19 Feb 2001, and used "clug" and CLUG in the mail body:
> You can then set up simple procmail recipies, like put all mail > from clug in folder "/Mailing Lists/CLUG". It doesn't need to > do the fancier procmail stuff.
Interestingly, though, his To: header had now changed to: Canterbury Linux UG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Following that, Dave Lane posted on 14 Mar 2001 using CLUG in his To: field.
The Bjorn Nilsen wrote, on 6 Sep 2001:
I have just uploaded the CLUG web site to http://canterbury.lug.net.nz/. It is minimal right now (it is even Lynx friendly), but I'm sure this will change. I am going to look at putting links up to other LUGs and good sites for getting Linux help. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I think a mailing list archive would be really useful too. I remember this being mentioned before but I can't remember who/what/where/how. Now if only I had a mailing list archive I could find out :-) .
After that, the CLUG references on the list came thick and fast.
So, Nick, really, is the father, in an inadvertent way, of the name "CLUG".
I remember initially thinking the name was somewhat unimaginative, but didn't really care enough to do anything about it. Now the name CLUG has been around long enough that it's basically stuck, and I see no reason to want to change it.
Here ends today's history lesson, Carl.
