Re: [sussex_mug] how do people find MUGs?

['Paul R Owen' via Sussex Mac User Group]

I’m the other side of Brighton in East Preston.  Paul Owen.  Sent from my iPhone On 6 Nov 2024, at 06:46, Steve Clen-Murphy <sclenmur...@gmail.com> wrote: I have been a member for probably 20 years still living the Sussex dream late of Ringmer now Bexhill. But more of a lurker really. Steve On 5 Nov 2024, at 21:54, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group <smug@googlegroups.com> wrote: And I’m now in coastal, ruralish Essex. Apart from Sam, is anyone still in Sussex? 😀 Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung On 5 Nov 2024, at 11:54, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <smug@googlegroups.com> wrote: And SMUG sails serenely on, albeit at a reduced speed as we very slowly learn to work out the easier issues ourselves with the reassurance that there are kind and helpful people still attached to the group. Very sorry Jason, but the screenshot is my best attempt (and it may be out of date of course). Nick <Screenshot 2024-11-05 at 11.53.16.png> On 5 Nov 2024, at 11:32, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <smug@googlegroups.com> 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/6F69AF00-8EB4-4694-87F5-623F6F9D2502%40me.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3B7C1395-4E3A-4CD9-B71B-5F004B107C9A%40mac.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/1954F3E2-7235-4C71-B1EA-F3B7383BED4D%40icloud.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/014CDC54-C4E8-45EE-9B4F-FAB8B3521809%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/9F744425-9151-4A25-A8E0-35399BAC12A3%40mac.com.