[wlug_org] Guidelines as agreed?

[Jamie Baddeley]

can the mailing manager wrangle the mailing list such that this gets
posted out monthly?

all good from my perspective,

ta

jamie

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:26, Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:47, Wood Brent wrote:
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> > Where did we get to regarding this since the meeting?
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