Wow... as an outsider, this thread has turned hillarious. As a Macintosh Lisa owner and founder of the PDXLUG (Portland Lisa Users Group, est. 1988), I'm offended by everyone's infringement on my name. Insensitive clods...
So let me get this straight... ~1994: PLUG (Portland Linux/Unix Group) is started. It's a fairly formal group. ~2001: PLUG claims their name with the state. ~1/2003: PDXLUG mailing list is started, soon after developing in to a separate, less formal group, using the name "Portland Linux User Group." ~7/2003: PLUG claims PDXLUG's name with the state. Granted, it was a terribly unoriginal name, and anyone could've seen this coming, but hindsight's 20/20. Squabbling ensues. ~7/2005: Squabbling persists. Fortunately, it sounds pretty friendly, and in my experience, it's something "Penguinistas" aren't averse to. Damn, is it really worth the confusion? There are ~60 posts in this thread. I've read each word of each post- something I don't think I've ever done with any thread of any kind of this length. *Finally*, I *think* I understand the difference between the two groups. Please correct me if I'm wrong. And which one is it that Ron Jeremy goes to? On 7/29/05, MJang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 07:23 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > If someone new started writing books with the name "Randal L. Schwartz", > > > you don't think I'd have a right to wonder the motivation? > > > > Only if they were Python books. > > Speaking of which, there is someone else who writes books under the name > "Michael Jang;" something on sociology.... > > And I keep reading "A PDX" something or another.... which makes me > wonder if there's more than one PDX ;) lol > > But so there's more than one LUG in Portland. That's diversity in a city > which looks awfully white to me! (i.e. all dem Linuxes and Unixes look > the same to most folks in the real world) > > Whenever I walk into a room where there are lots of folks named "Mike," > I keep my name. > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug > -- -NKO- _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
