Thanks to Sam, I'm back in the Group – so hello to all Smuggers (are you still called that?) I somehow got locked out – not because of naughty behaviour, I hasten to add! Derek On Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 11:32:57 AM UTC Jason Davies 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/36a5d865-13c6-48e2-b8cc-fa7af1a34400n%40googlegroups.com.
