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[Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 04/01/04 20.22, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > There has now been, for the second time in the last few months, a 
> > question 
> > about the name of our distribution.  When the name change was finalized, 
> > all
> > of our public interfaces (mail lists, Web sites, etc.) also changed and 
> > none
> > of the existing public interfaces have any of the history from before the 
> > name change.
> > 
> > I may be wrong, but as I remember it, the name that won the vote was 
> > "Source
> > Mage GNU/Linux".  I remember it so vividly, because I voted against it.  
> > :^) 
> > (And the guy who wanted it so much is no longer with us.)  I thought the 
> > name
> > stunk and I wanted something else.  (I was also not very pleased with any 
> > of
> > the offerings, but failed to come up with anything better, so here I 
> > stand.) 
> > 
> > Despite the fact that I voted against it, I now defend it whenever it is 
> > questioned or challenged.
> > 
> > What I'm looking for now is if there is anyone out there who was wise (or 
> > smart, or lucky, or...) enough to save some or all of our history.  I'm 
> > only
> > 
> > interested in the time period from when our first fearless leader went 
> > into 
> > isolation (ahem -- deep coding) to when then name change took effect.  I 
> > think we should, if possible, try to reintegrated it back into our 
> > existing 
> > public interface or at least provide a place on the Web site or Wiki 
> > where 
> > the information can be publicly accessed.
> > 
> > What say you?
> 
> I think that this is a great idea! However, I didn't have my server at the 
> time
> and was in the habit of formatting my drive quite often (trying the new 
> ISO's.
> ;)), so I only have the third month of 2002 for the SGL lists
> (hvs.envisage.co.za) (which is right after everything was pulled by the
> aforementioned leader), and everything since the fourth month of 2002 for 
> our
> new SGL lists (sorcerylinux.org), if any of that would help.

I had a look in my email directory (fairly large since I'm on a few
lists, and a notorious packrat), and my subscription the the SGL
mailing list is dated 'Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:34:10 +0200', so from that
point on I should have everything (unless it was lost in transit). If
I can get a list of what is missing, I'll see about getting it from my
archieve (I'll need to remove unneeded headers and the odd personal
mail that might have gotten in there).

/dossen
-- 
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
                -- Albert Einstein

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