>>>>> "Cliff" == Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cliff> There is a long and boring history between like six people in Cliff> PLUG and a few in PDXLUG over "the great confusion" arising Cliff> from having two LUGS in the same town. Russell> Just to show I am not always funny, and for the benefit of Russell> newcomers, the issue was *never* about having two LUGs in the Russell> same town. There were more than two well before PDXLUG Russell> appeared. It has *always* been about PDXLUG's use of the Russell> words "Portland Linux User Group" which were already in use Russell> by PLUG. And while I've never characterized the confusion as Russell> "great", it does seem persistent. I try to take note of it Russell> when I find it. Some others try to ignore or actively Russell> misrepresent it. Cliff> I think we've had this discussion enough. Most people happily Cliff> find themselves in the "try to ignore" it group. Personally, Cliff> I'm in the "trying to forget" group. I'm not aware of anyone Cliff> actively misrepresenting anything, [...] Every time you characterize the problem as "two LUGS in the same town", you misrepresent the issue. The issue has never been anything *but* the words "Portland Linux User Group" and the confusion that PDXLUG's use of them spawns. Robby's insertion of the indefinite article "a" marginally helped, but as we've seen it doesn't totally cure the problem. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
