Thanks for your keen administrating over the years Jason. I've been a member for some years now and I very much respect the approach you take.
I'd be willing to give it a go. I'm currently a mature student so I have time for it plus the list has been good to me over the years and it would be nice to give something back. -Adam On Monday, 9 December 2013, Jason Davies wrote: > Dear Smuggers > > I regretfully announce that I think I must hand over the reins of the > group. I tried this a couple of years ago and in fact someone got in touch > and I regret to say that the chaos that led to my asking contributed to my > not following up -- I mislaid the details of whoever kindly came forward. > > After a sustained period of work being crazy (now coming to an end) I now > find my personal and family life melting down on several fronts in a way > that will not end soon and must give up all non-essential (to me!) > activities to cope with the demands on me. > > I'm happy to have a decent cross-over for someone to learn the ropes and > to advise on future issues (while respecting the new admin's need to make > their own decisions). I have every intention of remaining as a member, I'm > just struggling with the (mostly fairly light) admin duties that go on > behind the scenes. It's one too many errands, too often. > > It's not *difficult* technically, and it calls for the courage of your > convictions about once a year to preserve a good list culture/violently and > arbitrarily repress someone's rights to post anything they like to the list > and deny them their freedom of speech which is an essential human right and > you alone are undermining civilisation (depending on your perspective) [ps > you have to *not want to* violently repress people to get it right...] > > It must have been ten years now, I can't even remember when I started. > When did Jason become a councillor? > > So - who's game? (PS the name 'Jason' not a requirement, even though it's > a tradition...) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'smug%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send an email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -Adam Adam Field CertHE Cert Legal Studies (Open) This message was sent from my iPhone so please excuse any punctuation or spelling mistakes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
