[PLUG] PLUG vs. PLUG

[Brian Beattie]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 16:15, Cliff Wells wrote:
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:24, Cliff Wells wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Better yet, try getting at 
> >>least the semblance of a life and stop worrying about such silliness.   
> >>Perhaps if PLUG didn't concentrate on this kind of thing so much then 
> >>there wouldn't be a PDXLUG.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This is good advice Cliff, take it.  
> >  
> >
> Yes, guilty as charged.  I've tried to ignore this but it baits my 
> tendency to argue.
> 
> >Your argument is silly, the PDXLUG folks split because they wanted
> >everybody to follow there vision of what the group should be
> >doing/talking about.  People here could not be bothered so they left. 
> >After the left the SNR of this group improved significantly (for a
> >while).
> >  
> >
> No, they split because, as their website explains, they wanted a less 
> formal, less topic-oriented users group.  One where people with a common 
> interest (Linux) could meet and discuss whatever they want without 
> getting told they were OT.  Perhaps at least some of this was due to 
> personality conflicts or whatever.  Frankly, it doesn't matter.  They 
> chose to form their own group and have every right to do so.  Still, to 
> expect that people in PLUG can publicly slander their group without a 
> response is "silly".

I saw it happen, and that is not what it looked like to me.  I can claim
to be the King of Asia, but that don't make it so.  Saying they wanted
to be able to talk with out being told they were off topic...well it's
true, anybody can say anything here, they can even say you are OT, which
BTW we are, way OT.

I feel that buy chosing a name PDXLUG that was easily confused with the
group they were splitting from PLUG is curious to say the least.  As I
said at the time, it reminded me of the Monty Python's Life of Brian ...
"splitters!"

<SIGH> oh well, it really is quite amussing.

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