[Tfug] TFUG Site/List

[Bexley Hall]

Greetings!

--- Jon <bigj at flatwan.net> wrote:

> TFUG'ers,
> 
> Over the past years I have been made several offers
> by people on the 
> 'net to purchase tfug.org from myself and Tyler.
> We've discussed these 
> offers in private and unanimously decided it wasn't
> good for the users, let alone us.
> 
> Well one person that has made offers in the past
> "upped the ante" so we 
> began talking about it some more. We concluded that
> the TFUG list 
> doesn't really offer any quality information you
> can't obtain from other 
> linux/unix enthusiasts lists. It seems people prefer
> the list as place 
> to harass and belittle people to make their
> miserable lives seem more 
> tolerable. That combined with the lack of
> committment to redo the 
> website and get it to modern day standards, we
> (Tyler and I) have 
> decided to take the offer and disband the TFUG list.

Yeah, I noticed an announcement on the Transylvanian
Federation of Undead Ghouls (www.bloodsuckers.org)
last night.  I hear they took up a donation and
came up with another 27 *pints*!

I suspect you turned down the offer from the
Teenybopper Frolicking Underage Groupies for fear
of lawsuits/imprisonment?  (can you spell "jailbait"?)

(sigh)  It would have been interesting to see what
they would have done with the domain...

> The new owner will let the list continue to run for
> the month of April 
> at which point the list will be shutdown along with
> the website. This 
> was a hard decision to make, trust us. There are
> alternatives though. 
> Google and Yahoo both have free mailing lists which
> might be a suitable 
> replacement for a list such as this.
> 
> I've met some great people (and not so great. You
> know who you are...) 
> and it pains me to do this. Stay in touch.
> 
> --
> Jon
> 
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