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George Prowse posted |
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<36babadf0511181744y1b2f9e0bia4b9507d8e007244@××××××××××.com>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:44:31 +0000: |
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> Having organised several Gentoo UK meetings I would like to be advised if |
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> anyone has a problem; especially if they dont come or have no idea when, |
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> where or what they are. |
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Top posting lost the context. Anyway... |
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As I read the upline, the original point made had nothing to do about UK |
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meetings in particular, that was just an example. |
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The point made was that the purpose of this feature is to get out vital |
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"do this if you don't want your system broken when you upgrade" type news. |
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Folks that want announcements of meetings and that sort of thing can |
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subscribe to GWN -- that's what it's for. If this feature starts getting |
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used for that, then folks will start ignoring it, because the SNR is too |
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low to be of any use for the intended purpose. |
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Nothing against UK meetings, or /any/ meetings, for that matter. The |
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place to get that sort of news is GWN. GLEP 42 is, and should remain, |
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different, as proposed, and in both my opinion and that of the original |
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poster that had the misfortune of bringing up the UK meetings as what was |
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supposed to be an off-hand example, and apparently hitting a sore spot. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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