Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:41:59 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Southeast Michigan Users' Group followup Message-ID: <20000719174158.A20996@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200007181209.IAA09569@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:09:38AM -0400 References: <200007181209.IAA09569@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael, On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:09:38AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > I offered a couple weeks ago to organize a Southeast Michigan users' > group, and asked people to mail me if they were interested. > > To date, I've gotten two responses. Counting me, that makes three. Based on personal experience, just go ahead and do it. I tried your approach when I tried setting up a UK FreeBSD user group. Response from the mailing lists was apathetic. Then Lee Johnston did exactly the right thing, and set up some mailing lists and a website and announced that the UK UG existed. Suddenly people came crawling out of the woodwork to subscribe :-) N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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