Re: [Hampshire] LUG Twinning

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LUG Twinning

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Alan Pope wrote:
> An idea struck me.


Brace for impact!

> Each LUG could find a "twin" LUG. They could each "write to" eachother
> (pen pal style) but in public. In a kind of blog or bulletin board. If
> net access is really crappy for them, then they could post via snail
> mail and we could type it up our end.


It sounds like a great idea. I'm not sure how you go about contacting
LUGs (or even how many there are) in poorer countries. If net access is
really bad, they probably won't have a website or mailing list.

There is also the issue of exporting stuff to other countries. If I
remember the exporting of some encryption software (like ssh) was a
problem some UK LUGgers encountered when doing something similar for the
first post-Saddam Iraqi LUGs.

Tony