[wellylug] NZLUG discussion

Ewen McNeill wellylug at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz
Sat Jul 9 20:44:37 NZST 2005


In message <6.1.2.0.0.20050709182158.05b618c0 at pop3.paradise.net.nz>, Tony Wills 
writes:
>At 17:53 9/07/2005, Ewen McNeill wrote:
>>(In theory I've been subscribed to the mailing list since Wednesday 
>>evening, and have received no messages.)
>
>There's been about 28 messages on the list NZLUG since Wednesday, the 
>AuckLUG list is very quiet.

After  playing with Google some, I see the problem.  The
http://www.nzlug.org.nz/ site refers to a different mailing list from the
"old" one.  And the "new" one (nzlug-discuss) is apparently unused.

http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/lists-nz.html

gives what appears to be the "current" mailing list, <nzlug at linux.net.nz>.
(Plus links to most of the other LUG lists in New Zealand.)

As such it appears that http://www.nzlug.org.nz/ can't be trusted, which
isn't exactly an inspiring start for something trying to be a central
resource...

Perhaps http://linux.net.nz/ is still intended to be the "official"
site for NZLUG, but if so it's a fairly unfortunate URL as I find
it nearly impossible to remember which of the various linux.co.nz,
linux.org.nz, linux.net.nz, linux.gen.nz, etc, is the "right" one for
any given thing (if any linux.org.nz would be the closest to obvious
of a NZ Linux group, but that's someone's vanity domain and lacks any
useful information at all).  "nzlug.org.nz" seems the obvious domain
so IMHO it'd be better to fix the content there, than try to tell the
whole world to go somewhere else.

Anyway I'll try subscribing to the "old" list and see what happens.

> From the NZLUG list Mark seems to expect some response back from WellyLUG 
>re the proposal, shall we discuss and then vote or just vote ;-)

Perhaps those who care to formulate an "official" response can talk about
it at one or more of the meetings this month.  From my point of view --
other than the fact that some of the information on the site is clearly
inaccurate, and there's not much there yet -- I can't see a problem with,
eg, putting a link on the Wellylug website pointing people at it.  The
general concept seems fine, even if the implementation needs work.

Ewen




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