Re: [MLUG] mlug?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, John Borchardt wrote:

> hey, what the heck is going on with mlug?  the website hasn't been
> updated for like a year, and there isn't even any
> freesoftware.missouri.edu anymore.  does mlug even have a president?
> does he or she do anything?  when was the last
> meeting/presenation/expo/installfest?

Dunno on all counts.  Before the school year I and a couple of other
people volunteered to give presentations, but nobody ever got around to
setting anything up...as far as I know.

[snip]
 
> so what?  is it okay for mlug to ostensibly do nothing while the rest of
> the campus migrates to exchange server, outlook webmail, and winxp?

I doubt that migration to Exchange is anything that MLUG could have 
influenced given that there was some fairly vocal opposition expressed at 
the time by some departments and faculty...who in practice do have at 
least a bit more influence than your average sporadic undergraduate 
organization.  I think a lot of the complete universality of MS owes a lot 
to the fact that it (and its file formats) were adopted as being official 
by the staff, which means that everybody else had to come along for the 
ride, at least if you wanted to send any electronic documents to them.

Actually, in my classes I forbade electronic submission of papers and such 
for the opposite (but identical in spirit) reason: I didn't want to deal 
with a bunch of dorkily formatted Word (random version here) files.  This 
year, I do accept these from (smaller) upper division classes since I can 
easily convert them into PDF.  Not the best end result, but I can live 
with it.

jking

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