Closed and offers. You never know, I might want to take an offer up one day, but I'm never going to want to search archives beyond what I can do in gmail anyway.
--stuart On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Ray Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not worried CLOSE IT ..... > Ray > > > On Thursday, February 26, 2009, at 08:54PM, "Jason Davies" > <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >>> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
