From: "Claus Sørensen" <cs@plomus.dk>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: 1500 free Linux CD-ROM and 1500 members
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:21:56 +0100

Yesterday the largest Linux user group Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group (SSLUG)
said welcome to member number 1500 and almost at the same time 1500 free Red
Hat 5.2 CD-ROM's were "sold out".

Thursday December 10th SSLUG got 1500 free Red Hat 5.2 CD-ROMs sponsored by
Dansk Data Elektronik (DDE) and Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe (DKUUG) to
distribute too new and current members. DDE is one of the largest Danish IT
companies (http://www.dde.dk/) and DKUUG is the Danish UNIX user group
(http://www.dkuug.dk).

Even before the story of the free CD-ROMs was printed in the news they were
sold out in only 4 days. The CD-ROM was distributed by 12 Danish and 2 Swedish
members. The distributors received envelopes with the right postage by users
who want a free CD-ROM. This is the third time SSLUG distributes free CD-ROMs
but this time was absolutely the fastest.

Member number 1500 appeared late Monday night and shows that SSLUG has grown
by 50% in just 41 days (since November 3rd). If the group keeps expanding with
that rate SSLUG will have over 65,000 members New Year's Eve 1999 :-)

Press-coordinator Claus Sørensen  -  cs@plomus.dk  -  phone +45 44 66 46 46
 Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group (SSLUG) - http://www.sslug.dk/