[Ryedale] Dysphonic LUG

Fintan Gaughan fgaughan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 11:52:18 BST 2007


This was posted in a Hants Lug , this person wrote in a similer way
that i wrote but using the words dumb and making us all out stupid.
using the word dumb is very offensive to deaf community.
obviously he is trolling.

Normally i ignore things like that but for some reason it has offended me
I have taken it to heart.. but i think after a few days i will calm down
I hope it gets deleted from their archives .. but it gives me an un
easy feeling that someone could write this and we host our mailing
list on their server.


Fintan



On 25/04/07, Al Girling <al at gcguk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> > This was posted in another mailing list to which i am not happy about
> >
> > If your wondering what lug is its Linux User Group
> >
> >
> > -----
> >
> >
> > Hello all, need some advise here.
> >
> > I am about to start a LUG for people with speech impediments. I get lots
> > of emails from people with speech impediments regarding Linux. So I
> > thought I'd set one up, although I do say go to your local LUG!
> >
> > You're thinking: why another LUG?
> >
> > Dumb people communicate using BSL or by writing on stuffs so English is
> > not our first language. So if they post on here, people might not
> > realise how dumb they are and point them to another LUG or even another
> > operating system. I have seen this happen a few times.
> >
> > My question is: when setting up a LUG, do people shoot you down and tell
> > you not to bother because you are dumb? Why bother with a dumb LUG if it
> > is for only a few dumb people talking in dumb language? There aren't
> > many dumb people using Linux or Apple because most dumb people are on
> > Microsoft: most government agencies, large banking institutes, the Royal
> > Navy, and so on.
> >
> > Please help me make Linux easier for dumb people!
>
> This is obviously a very similar group to that which you have started as
> Deaf-LUG.  In fact, would they be similar enough to be classed as one
> group?  Maybe you should contact him to see if he'd be willing to join
> you.
>
> > --
> > Luke Stutters
> Hmm,   ^^^^^^^^ Am I the only one who thinks this might be a joke?
>
> Toodle pip,
>
> Al
>
> --
> Al Girling
>
> Home page:                  <http://al.sdf-eu.org>
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