[UFO Chicago] [nick@zork.net: [!CrackMonkey!] [evan@debian.org: Re: meeting this month?]]

[Nate Riffe]

Just now Neil R. Ormos made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> 
> > I'm super behind on my crizzackmonkey listmail, but I ran
> > across this, and it struct me as very UFO, although our
> > meetings are not open to public-forum calling, mostly
> > because of scheduling and mapping and stuff like that.
> 
> [Deletia: Approximately 165 lines/7200 characters of "Rules"
> and explanatory hints, most written in the
> obnoxiousness-maximized IRC-f*ck-you style, for calling a
> Bay Area Debian users group meeting.]
> 
> Observation: If the author of that piece is so interested in
> expository writing, perhaps his time would be better spent
> writing some useful documentation for Debian, which IMO, it
> sorely lacks.
> 
> Question: If we convert B.A.D.'s rules for calling a meeting
> to U.F.O.'s much simplified and shorter, but eminently more
> useful rules for calling a meeting, is that "compression"?

No.  That would be "optimization".  HTH.

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