gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:30:05 -0400


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Re: PLUG letterhead (was: Re: [PLUG] Fwd: plug meeting at usip.edu - fyi)


On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:11:59PM -0400, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> "Philadephia Area Linux...."

Cool. You might want to tell the web page that. ;^>

> I'm less sure of that one.

Yeah, it's not so very clear. And various UGs for various things
make various decisions.

> The oldest document I know of that uses the name, and is in any way
> authoritative is http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus/95cfearnl.dec.txt -
> Chris Fearnley's December 1995 PACS Databus article, announcing the
> formation of PLUG.  It uses "Philadelphia Area Linux User's Group".
> But that wasn't one of your options.  Is "User's" gramatically correct ?

Heh. Only if there's only one user. ;^>

> Guess not.  In addtion to the 3 mentioned so far, I have also used
> "Philadelphia Area User Group".  

Ooo... I actually like that best. It completely avoids the issue of
the possessive and implies both the "of" and "for" sense. Sweet.

> Gabriel, maybe you should just pick one, and let us know :)

Heh.

Sorry I didn't make it to last night's meeting. I got hung up
explaining how a cluster of research computers works to a professor
and underclass student. Oh well, three weeks...

-- 
       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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