>From an admin POV i allowed Derek's post as he's from a fellow MUG. If anyone wants to discuss it in depth with Derek, please take it off list.
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If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > On 18 Nov 2014, at 19:19, ethical.peter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Point taken Derek! > > Best, Peter > > On 18/11/2014 19:13, Jason Davies wrote: > > I think you replied to the wrong message;) > > You have no idea how much complication I saved you all from on this front. > The simplistic version is this: many other MUG leaders think there is a > kind of formula which involves meeting up regularly and having promotional > talks etc (I went to a couple for LMUG before i left that asylum). This > also requires membership validation for eg entry and discounts, which are > usually not amazing. This requires membership fees, say a fiver a year, > which creates enormous administrative overload for very little gain in my > view. > > Seeing as this followed the migration to google groups, which was not easy > and flummoxed plenty of people (including me), when this came round I said > 'no thanks, we're good'. Which led to a lot of emails with > people-who-clearly-have-too-much-time-on-their-hands saying we *ought* to > have this and that, because that's what they do. In the end (confession > time, no-one knew this outside that circle!) I threatened to form a > breakaway MUG as they are to all intents and purposes a self-designated > category these days... and they backed down. Apple does not play much of a > role in these groups and seems not to care about us, not answering emails > etc (which is fine by me). But they don't interfere either, and we are on a > list *somewhere* of official groups. > > I stress all this this was because a) the attempts to have people meet up > here generally don't get that far b) collecting a token amount to create a > category of 'paid-up member' seemed an astonishing amount of work for about > 200 people which I couldn't undertake. > > But mainly it was 'this is a great list, don't mess with it'. > > I'm no longer the admin but the line was always if people want to meet, go > ahead and organise it here on the list;) I assume it hasn't changed much (I > await the moderator's verdict) > > On 18 Nov 2014, at 18:54, ethical.peter wrote: > > I didn't know there was a physical aspect to this group?? Please do > enlighten me Derek! > > Best, Peter > > On 15/11/2014 20:44, Derek Wright wrote: > > Thanks for the link > > On Friday, November 7, 2014 2:21:03 PM UTC, Paul Owen wrote: > > All is explained in this rather useful article: > > <http://tidbits.com/article/15216 <http://tidbits.com/article/15216> > <http://tidbits.com/article/15216>> > > Paul Owen > > -- > 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] > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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