Open. I've never taken up any of the offers and they don't really interest me. Thinking about the amount of info I get from other forums, I see the value in having them open.
Finding a way to have the archives open and have the offers available for members who want them (a mailing list people can opt to subscribe to?) would seem to be the best solution. Darren On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Steve Vyse <[email protected]>wrote: > Jason, > Offer and closed archive for me. > Regards > -- > *Steve Vyse* > * > *www.sekforde.co.uk > > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 20:54, Jason Davies wrote: > > > Returning to something I was looking into, I had closed off the > archives so we could have offers from MUG groups which are not > intended to be open to the 'general public'. Some of the > rationale for that is that MUG groups often pay membership fees > (which we don't) and are therefore a 'more exclusive set.' > > I'm inclined to keep the archives closed because > > a) there seems to have been interest in offers as a result of > the spat yesterday > b) I don't think the SMUG archives are particularly a source of > unrepeated tips for the wider community (no offence, but it's > not Apple's Applescript list) > > Part of the arrangement for receiving offers is that they only > go to MUG members, not to the world in general. Since joining is > pretty easy, it's not a serious bar to access. > > So I would prefer to close the archives and post the occasional > MUG offers. Tom voted against. Can we do a quick check of > opinions for closing (and receiving offers) or opening (and not > receiving offers)? > > I'd rather just have votes rather than complex discussion so we > can make a quick decision. Shall we say 'polling' closes > midnight Saturday? > > It's currently tied, me for closing, Tom for opening:-) > > Tom Coady wrote on 22/12/08 at 12:28 > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In order to be able to post these I've had to make the archives > > inaccessible to non-members. If anyone violently disagrees with > > that, please say so - but it will make posting these offers very difficult! > > > > I object, but only mildly, because > > > - you could post this to a group page which by default tells non-members > > "*You cannot view the group's content or participate in the group because > > you are not currently a member. * *Members must be approved before > > joining."* > > - At least one reason for switching to groups was to open the archive > > resource to the "community" > > - I've never seen anything of interest in these offers which look more > > like spam to me, ymmv > > > > > > > > > > -- Darren Morgan [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
