Re: ComputerChips magazine

Russell Senior wrote:

>>>>>>"Cliff" == Cliff Wells <[email protected]> writes:
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>>>>>>
>
>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.
>  
>

We don't have a problem.  People complaining have the problem.  Go 
away.  Be healed.
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