If you were not there to advocate on our behalf, how would we fight such a decision?
Go and see Mike Dewe the Director of IT or Robin Harrington the 2IC
Robin is actually quite sympathetic to the Linux cause. Mike's not too bad either.
I seem to recall that the situation might have been little shaky in the year or two gap before you became list admin, and after the previous list admin (was it Mark Aitchison?) left uni.
Kerry... someone. Can't remember his last name. Ran the firewall before Brendon Wyber. Was my predecessor as list owner. When he left I inherited it.
[ digs into long-neglected directories ]
Mark Aitchison posted his final message on the list from his uni account on 09 Dec 1998 (responding to a question about long filename support on linux, if you must know), and his first message from his new job on 03 Jun 1999.
Zane's first post was 21 Jun 2000 (about what to tell MPs about open source). This was from a personal account though, I'm not sure when he officially had responsibility for the list maintainence.
Ye gods!
My ancient records only go up to Oct 3 2000, and the on-line archive starts in Dec 2000, so there's a gap of...
No. Wait. I've found some more emails...
Here it is. Zane's first post from a uni account, 02 Jul 2001
Urrk was it very embarassing?
How many of us will be haunted in years to come by stuff we posted many years ago. What will our grandkids learn about us...
Interesting concept. My future grandchildren finding a CLUG archive 30 years from now and reading my rants. :-/
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