Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):

> From my point of view, meetup.com has inserted itself into LUG
> operations as an unneeded middle man for LUGs without an effective
> publicity officer.

In case anyone's interested in an extended and only semi-temperate rant
on this theme:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html

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