[wellylug] Administrivia: Wellylug Monthly Posting

[Simon Smith]

Yeah.... although,we're pretty quiet ;-)

I'm an RHEL administrator at Victoria University.

Simon
On Jan 3, 2013 10:56 AM, "Pedro Worcel" <pedro at worcel.com> wrote:

> Hey there!
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> Is anyone around here?
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> I am a programmer working at Datacom, been in wellington for a year now,
> coming from Uruguay!
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> Cheers,
> Pedro
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> 2013/1/1 Wellylug Automatic Posting <autopost at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
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