From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jan 10 22:19:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13217 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jive.dub.net (jive.dub.net [169.197.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13212 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unfurl@jive.dub.net) Received: (from unfurl@localhost) by jive.dub.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25958; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:18:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from unfurl) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:18:14 -0700 From: Unfurl To: Wes Peters Cc: seafug@dub.net, FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: Seattle FreeBSD Group mailing list Message-ID: <19990110231814.A25911@dub.net> References: <19990110174955.A24602@dub.net> <369990FA.7EE542E7@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <369990FA.7EE542E7@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:49:46PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:49:46PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Unfurl wrote: > > > > So for the few ppl who responded to my call for users in the Seattle > > area I have set up a mailing list. Hopefully this will be a forum that > > we can start chatting about actually *starting* a group in. > > > > The list address is seafug@dub.net. > > > > It is a majordomo list so just send the words: > > > > subscribe seafug > > You've got to come up with a synonym for "Users" that starts with "O." ;^) > > You may attract a somewhat wider audience by addressing BSD in general, > rather than just BSD. Your experiences will be close enough to warrant > a general users group with {Free,Net,Open}BSD sigs. Maybe a Seattle Free Unix Group is the best idea in this light. Mostly I wanted to focus on FreeBSD because there are already a couple of Linux groups and one generic UNIX group (that I know of) in the area; seemed to me this was what we (Seattle) lacked. So what are some of the other opinions on this matter? Do you guys think it is a better idea for Users Groups to be more broad, e.g. covering *BSD and linux as well or ?? I am open to suggestions and (of course) am in no way the person who must decide this matter. Are any of the ppl on this list part of a sucessful users group? Maybe it would help to define how to start a sucessful users group. -Bill -- unfurl@dub.net - This is a munition. Fight Back! #!/bin/perl -sp0777i