At risk of making this thread too long, I feel it's worth applauding the
community I ended up admin-ing. I was an LMUG refugee. LMUG was the worst list
I've ever known. There was a gang I referred to as 'the LMUG mafia' who would
contact you off list to complain about the way I helped people (I was not alone
in this). It was mind-numbing being lectured to in the most patronising way by
people who happily said they didn't know how to help (and never tried) but were
very concerned about the 'bluntness' of 'please post a detailed description of
what exactly is happening. "It's not working" doesn't tell us enough to help!'
So they would harangue you continuously while in the list the person was saying
'ok fair enough' and thanking you for sorting their problem. I just got
exhausted and lost it when someone posted me a George Orwell short essay on how
to write. I fled here and have been astonished ever since at what a great bunch
of people you all are.
LMUG haemorrhaged knowledgeable people in those days. I hope it's improved
because it was awful.
Thank you, all.
cheers,
-Jason
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On 27 Dec 2016 at 09:50:54 GMT, Jason Kitcat <[email protected]> wrote:
Merry Christmas everyone :-)
I don’t remember the dates exactly, I’d need to spend some time in the email
archives. But it was around 2001/2 that the group going but I didn’t start it,
I just resurrected it. At the time there was Apple support for user groups and
they said there was a dormant group I could resurrect. There was a small list
and support from Cancom on Queens Road. We used to meet on Middle Street in a
place that was then called SUMO but has changed many times since!
I remember seeing Stephen’s new iPod back then, a-maz-ing :-)
All the best,
Jason
> On 27 Dec 2016, at 07:44, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Nick,
>
> Jason Kitkat could tell you when exactly he started SMUG. Derek and I
> remember SMUG meetings in the basement below a restaurant somewhere near the
> seafront, a while before it moved up the hill. I remember seeing Stephen
> there, showing off his brand new Ipod!
>
> Happy New Year everyone!
>
> Gilly
>
>
>
> On 27 Dec 2016, at 13:36, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Couldn’t have expressed it better myself and although I don’t know the start
> date of the group at a guess I have been benefitting for at least 17 years
> starting with the meeting in the pub across the road from Brighton Station!
> Nick
>
>> On 26 Dec 2016, at 22:39, Derek Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Well said.
>> D
>>
>>
>>> On 26 Dec 2016, at 22:24, ARMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Merry Christmas to you all. Even though I spend most of my retired time in
>>> spain now, I still follow the group and try to chip in when I can. However
>>> mostly I just read the posts and occasionally pick up a gem of information.
>>> We have so many members well versed in all things Apple Mac who are
>>> prepared to give up their time to help us numpkins get our work done, thank
>>> you all. And a special thank you to Sam who so aptly calls himself
>>> MacAmbulance and has helped all of us at some time over and over.
>>> This past year seems to have been a bit of a horror for so many people and
>>> in so many ways which will be felt for a long long time. Very big political
>>> movements, so many well loved people and artists have left us and each of
>>> us have had our own little struggles which only we know about and will
>>> never burden anyone else.
>>> This group is like having good friends one has never met. I wish you all
>>> prosperity and health in the forthcoming year.
>>>
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