PS I should clarify this was because I have some old kit that might
interest people, which I'm not interested in posting...not planning to
leave any time soon;)
On 5 Nov 2024, at 12:09, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
Reddit might be a better place to look? There are lots of Mac-based
communities there
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On 5 Nov 2024, at 11:32, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi folks,
Despite being list admin for a while of this group, I've never
actually lived in Sussex (haha). I joined because the London Mac User
Group had become a feral wilderness and it was the nearest one.
I thought I might also try to join the Buckinghamshire one (if one
exists) but have had no success finding one, nor even finding any
group. All the supposed networks (like
http://www.macusersuk.org/index.html) seem to be abandoned.
So I'm curious how people find groups (and maybe it's just my search
algorithm being unhelpful – I don't use Facebook, either).
Cheers,
J
Anecdote mode:
While I was list admin I was contacted by the mafia I mean the people
running the list above (I think it was) who had all kinds of demands
about how the list and group should be run run. They insisted on
membership fees, organised in-person meetings (monthly, I think),
presentations to be organised by companies to offer discounts if you
signed up there and then - far more than I had time to do.
Rather than say 'don't you have anything better to do?' I did put it
to this group who thought membership fees would be the death-knell,
and I certainly didn't have time to check people had paid their £2 a
month and set up bank accounts etc for this. I told them we didn't
want to do that and they threatened me repeatedly with expelling us
from the official list of MUGs. I think there was a vague move to
meeting in-person for those interested, which fizzled out.
I said they were welcome to run that stuff for us but I was only able
to run the list (I became convinced none of them had jobs, and were
happy to spend their entire lives doing this) and they seemed to back
off. Now I suspect all those retired bullies are...less active, since
the site is broken and looks like it was optimised for a Powerbook
150.
Cheers,
Jason
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