I could be dead wrong, but I would bet (if I weren't a BYU student) that there are more UUG members on PLUG than PLUG members on UUG, per capita. (does that make sense?) The UUG usually has a lot more traffic. The UUG has more off-topic discussions. The UUG occasionally (and rightfully) talks about UUG events that really only apply to UUG 'members' - even though we welcome everyone to the meeting I know a lot of non-BYU students don't come because they let their beard grow or they drank a Coke yesterday or they don't like the football team or _some_ reason. I'm being a bit fecitious but it is true. The UUG also has discussions about the various academic departments. Some of these UUG-specific discussions are completely on-topic, yet would not be on the PLUG list.
So the question I think is not does UUG want to merge with PLUG, but does PLUG want UUG to merge with it? Or, do we have the discipline to use the PLUG list for general discussion and UUG list for BYU-specific discussion? * Stuart Jansen [Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:09 -0700] <quote> > This message is purposefully cross-posted. > > Let's face it, there is significant overlap between the UUG and Plug. > The only reason both exist is because of stupid rules on the part of > BYUSA. It is more efficient to have just one community. Although not > completely possible, many of us having been moving in that direction for > some time. (For example, by subscribing to both lists and cross-posting > announcements.) > > What I would like to know is: how does everyone feel about just merging > the lists. No more of this cross-posting silliness. There will be some > BYUSA related stickiness we'll have to work out, but that can be left to > the officers to deal with. > > I suggest a period of open debate, followed by a highly scientific poll > on http://uug.byu.edu > > I, for one, am 100% in favor. (Don't worry me fellow BYU students, we > won't have to see their heathen beards through email, and nothing more > controversial than that has ever been seen on the Plug list.) > > -- > Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> > > Programming in Java feels like C without the sense of accomplishment. > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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