Manchester is the largest of the subgroups and you have to touch
your
forelock when you meet them because they are also the Quanta toffs.
(Quanta
is shortly to be renamed the "External Affairs Branch of the North
East
Manchester QL User Group"). For a large group they are surprisingly
silent
about what they get up to, probably because of years of covert
plotting to
take over Quanta. I once tried to goad them into telling us
something of
what they do by suggesting on this list that they were not really
QL-ers,
but a secret Elvis appreciation society, but it did not work.
;-))
Does that make John Gilpin or Keith Dunbar Elvis reincarnated? I will
wait to see what the QL Today editorial team can discover :o)
Manchester do not have a dedicated website in spite of the fact that
the
Quanta toffs are always moaning about how little interest the lesser
mortals
on other subgroups show in having a dedicated page on the Quanta
website.
All very hypocritical when you consider Quanta's specialist web
staff hale
from Manchester,
Best wishes,
Geoff
PS Dilwyn, please feel free to reproduce this in its entirety in the
Quanta
Magazine, but somehow I don't think you will want to.
Ummm, I'll take the excuse that I am not Editor and that this doesn't
come within my News Editor remit :-/
And as I (to the best of my knowledge) have never been within range of
a subgroup (nearest was Cheshire) I don't feel qualified to comment
too much on that unless the few QLers west of Chester would like to
form one?
Also, I was rather disappointed with the response I got to my
international groups requests. Despite trying to contact several
individuals I knew of from former groups, I never got replies from
most of them. So I took that as far as I could then gave up in
disappointment.
I was very glad to see individuals taking the initiative with the
recent shows in Switzerland and Austria, of course. No user group in
those countries didn't mean nothing happening of course.
Dilwyn Jones
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