On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:58 +1200, Don Gould wrote: > Call to order please. > > aa. We don't speak to new members who are expressing interest in > showing up in the way you people are. That is not the CLUG way. > > We simply ban them from list.
no one has ever been banned in my memory. But some people do test the patience. > > bb. Nick, you provided the google reference, however you failed to > provide the co-ordinates in plain text. What are people with GIS in > their cars meant to do with your url? > I dunno, I provided it as a google maps reference for use with goolge maps, that is all. It is, however, in plain text wrapped in xml if you actually look. Therefore owners of GIS equipment can do what they like with it - but if their equipment has an open interface it is trivial to extract the latitude and longitude info from the attachment and put it into their device. Oh and i hope that a 559 byte attachment that was ON topic was acceptable - it certainly met CraigF's criteria. > Also what are people with tramping maps and a campus meant to do? If they have a campus I suppose they could offer us space for a meeting, then they won't need a map, compass, google earth or anything other than what is between their ears to get there. > > Also please *don't* send attachments to list. > see above. > cc. Many of you make reference to 'wiki'. We have no idea is this new > clown even knows what a 'wiki' is. Please, it's a 'web site'. You > should have explained to him to use his faviourate bit of http and > navigate to port 80. > yes a link might have been nice. > Did anyone check his headers to identify what platform he was posting > from so we could make the best recommendation. > all platforms that are likely to be in use support http. > dd. Our group is small enough as it is, And getting smaller it seems, I guess largely because of the drivel that some members insist on sending to the list on a regular basis. > let's try to remember to always > be polite to every good intentioned member as we don't want to loose > support for our Linux community just because we can't even give clear > direction to a building that is aledged to be in Shirley (personally I > haven't been there and signed it). > There have been 2 or 3 maps and a google earth link posted. How much fucking easier do you want it to be? What did you do before online maps? You went to the phone book and looked up "Shirley Community Centre" - which gave you an address. You then used local knowledge, friends' local knowledge and/or a bloody map. How hard is it? > HTH > > Cheers Don >
