[svlug] Re: SVLUG (fwd)

[Ian Kluft]

> From: marc_merlin at magic.metawire.com (Marc MERLIN)
> On 23 Nov 1998 15:32:43 -0800, Ben Spade <spade at spade.com> wrote:
> >here in Denmark our LUG is now BOOMING - from 1000 to 1200 ordinary
> >members in three weeks. Linux is winning here!! The press is writing a lot
>[...] 
> Total: 1171

Well, you can't add them that way since many people are subscribed to
announce and one of the other two.

But I wouldn't worry about the numbers from Denmark for now.  We know our
numbers are conservative.  We don't know much about theirs.  We have the
subscription authentication so it's a little harder to subscribe to our lists,
but you know everyone here intended to.  We have yet to see if they can hold
on to this for the long term.  We don't know if they prune bad addresses
from their lists like Rob does for us.  etc. etc. etc...

It will take some time to really convince us that another LUG has grown
larger than SVLUG, i.e.  until we start seeing their activities in
Slashdot and/or the international media once in a while.  (hint hint... :-)
Meanwhile we'll have a *friendly* disagreement with them over claims to be
the largest LUG in the world.  Whichever way it eventually pans out, it's
a win for Linux.
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Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL                                  Cisco Systems, Inc.
ikluft at cisco.com (work)  ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (home)          San Jose, CA

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