Re: [LIG] History

Heh - you wouldn't happen to have those 10 names from March '98 would you ? 
:-)

nikk

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From: "Arun Sharma" <[email protected]>
To: <linux-india-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:22 AM
Subject: [LIG] History


>[ Attending foss.in 2006 this week ]
>
> Meeting some of the early people who used to hang out on the list and
> reading through the wikipedia page 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_India)
> it sounds like there is some uncertainity about the precise dates and
> the events that lead to the creating of this list.
>
> I spent a few minutes sifting through the web to come up with more precise
> data and here's what I found:
>
> a) The list started in late 1997
>
> IIRC, KD and I hooked up via:
>
> GLUE: Groups of Linux users everywhere
> http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue [ URL no longer accessible ]
>
> We had 10 subscribers in March 1998.
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/woven/lugww/IN.html
>
> We announced it on comp.os.linux.announce in July 1998.
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/archives/comp.os.linux.announce/volume98/Jul/980715.02.gz
>
> b) Places where the list was hosted and administered:
>
> 1997-Nov 1999: majordomo-JWu/g2lOtLBch8oin/[email protected] - Arun Sharma 
> <[email protected]>
> Nov 1999 - Apr 2001: aunet.org, linux-india.org (first majordomo, then 
> mailman) - Thaths ([email protected])
> Apr 2001 - now: sourceforge.net (thaths, raju, devdas bhagat and anyone 
> else I may have missed - please correct me)
>
> grandteton.cs.uiuc.edu: My desktop machine in the university (A 200 MHz 
> PPro). Once I graduated from school and moved out, it was given to other 
> students, but they continued to let me have access so I could administer 
> the lists.
>
> It was hosted in thath's bedroom for the next two years before moving to 
> SF.
>
> -Arun
>
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