Thanks bjt!
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:59:06 PM UTC, Jason Davies wrote: > > Dear Smuggers > > I've had a few years administering SMUG now (with some mistakes and one > or two explosions, but the building is still standing). > > The difficulty is that my workload these days is extraordinarily high, > and shows no sign of abating. Most of it is email. I feel like a > call-centre, spending about 12 hours a day, every day, replying to > emails and doing admin-type tasks. Unless I'm doing other things, which > just defers the email joy. > > The reality has been for some time now that even if I finish work in > time to look at SMUG matters, absolutely the last thing I can face is > reading emails and doing admin tasks (like troubleshooting someone not > receiving email, checking that new members are not spammers etc). > > So I think it's time to put on the table that it's time for a successor. > I'm happy to help with a transition process. > > All you need is: > > 1) To learn from my mistakes (principally, that you are no longer an > 'ordinary member of the group' and cannot afford to join in when it gets > fractious, as some of you will remember). > > 2) to be happy to do a few checks on new members and keep an eye on > things getting out of hand. > > 3) to have the nerve to call a halt to things just as they are starting > to get fun (sorry, but it's often the way: just as people are getting > excited/really enjoying themselves, the rest of the list is getting > tired of the increasingly OT and excitable thread, and quietly leave). > > Think it over. I'll try to keep up with the conversation;) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/smug/-/2ib7jy-pxtcJ. To post to this group, send an 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.
