On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:17 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:57:33AM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:54 -0700, Hill, Greg wrote: > > > This isn't an attack, just a general wtf kind of comment. Why do people > > > at colleges assume that everyone knows what their building acronyms mean > > > (or more precisely, where said buildings are located)? Just curious. I > > > see it all the time, and it always perplexes me. > > > > Think of it as a membership filter. If you are a BYU student, you are > > worthy to attend the meeting. If you know how to use Google to find a > > map on the BYU Web site, you are worthy. If not, you are doomed to be > > forever lost, wandering Provo. > > Think of it as an attendance filter. If you're too lazy to expand the > building acronym, floor and room number, and give a street address, > city, state and postal code, and a contact phone number, why should I > exert the energy to show up for your meeting? A map would be nice, and > for the GPS fans, a latitude and longitude would also be nice. A > suitable parking lot and driving directions from a major intersection > might also be appropriate. Feel free to use tools like Google Maps and > Expedia. > > I would wonder if the speaker put as much effort into the presentation > as the advertiser did into the location information. > > Get a clue.
I guess the membership here on the plug list has changed dramatically over the last year or so. Last year advertisements for UUG events never needed to include anything more than a building code and room number and interested parties found it just fine. Of course that's probably because a large number of plug subscribers were former UUG members. In any event, a polite request for clarification on the part of pluggers who aren't familiar with the UUG would have been much more appropriate than an ill-though-out rant on the part of the person who first complained. Many of us who are no longer in Utah (well I am still in Utah) stay on the plug list to kind of keep in touch with our Utah roots and stay connected to plug friends, but exchanges like this kind of sour the whole environment. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
