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Re: PLUG is dead, right? Any linux groups in Perth?

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From: Bevan Broun
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:00
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John Darrington wrote:
> 
> Bevan Broun (bevanb@ee.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
> 
> : when I first installed linux (June) I read (somewhere) that PLUG had
>                                 ^   1997  ??
> : restarted after being dead. Therefore PLUG has died twice => we would
> I never heard that.

Yes - June 97. From memory there was a home page for PLUG and meetings
were
scheduled for first tuesdays for the month at some room of Edith Cowan.
I think
it was restarted in 95.

> : want to be sure of success before another try.
> Perhaps it was just lack of publicity.  But yes, no point resurrecting a
> doomed entity.
> 
> : Note that the newsgroup wa.plug exits on my news server
> I don't think it's on mine, try posting something to it.

There are some messages on wa.plug (inc. this one)


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From: Bevan Broun <bevanb@ee.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: PLUG is dead, right? Any linux groups in Perth?
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