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Re: [PLUG] PLUG makes Slashdot (sort of.)
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why not just "phlug" ?
or... the earliest dating "plug" keeps plug, others choose something
else? ;) From what I've seen at the actual meetings, it's actually
"Philadelphia AREA user's group", so maybe PALUG? (or is there a
pennsylvania lug?) At any rate, the fact that we even have to worry
about it is a good thing I suppose!
-- noah silva
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 20:37, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 06/17, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > That's the 'sort of' part. Maybe a note on the website of other PLUGs
> > is in order. I've seen Pheonix a couple times, plus 'Prairie', from
> > Canada, stopped by in irc once.
>
> Nah, it's a common phenomenon and I think enough people are aware of
> the issue and figure it out for themselves. I think this problem is
> also part of why lugs are usually spelled out along with their initials.
>
> The oldest reference I know of to our group's name is in Chris Fearnley's
> December 1995 PACS Databus article:
> http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus/95cfearnl.dec.txt
>
> Which is quoted at the top of the PLUG history page:
> http://www.PhillyLinux.org/history.html
>
> And says: "Philadelphia Area Linux User's Group (Philly-LUG)"
>
> I've guessed this was an initial attempt to avoid this common problem
> of namespace collision. Don't know how it changed to PLUG. There are
> at least a few people on this list that were involved back then.
>
> The name inconsistently changed between "Users" "User's" and "User" as much
> as I could tell, and was somewhat formalized a while ago on "User" in a
> discussion on this list. I should find that in the archives and document
> it on the history page.
>
> --
> "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
> you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi
> http://www.ChaosReigns.com
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