On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:21:13PM +0100, Stuart Powell wrote:
About 3-4 months back, the old flame war kicked off again surrounding Fred Miller's news posts. The volume of pro and anti-Fred messages was exponentially larger than Fred's messages ever were. As such, someone offered to host a Linux advocacy list spawned from the members of the SuSE list. I do not believe it to be restricted to those users, but that is certainly where it began.
That really is a shame :-( I tend to like a few OT posts (out of 170..) to spice up my life and give me a break from 'thinking' messages. I was wondering where Fred's messages had gone. It's a shame that people took it that far. Oh well, I suppose I'll have to look into that.
Since the new group was free to discuss general computing issues in addition to SuSE specific issues, Fred began posting his news messages there. The intent was that those seeking SuSE help would continue to use the SuSE list, and those wishing to discuss broader issues would do so on the lx-talk list. Having been away from these lists for a couple of months myself, it will probably take me a few days to get back into the swing of things. Most of the noisier (meant in a nice way) people from the SuSE list subscribed to the lx-talk list when it began, so you should see some familiar names there if it is still as active as it used to be.
If you go to www.mamalala.de, you can find the info and the archive, although I found the archive to be down when I checked it earlier.
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