Hi folks,
Despite being list admin for a while of this group, I've never actually
lived in Sussex (haha). I joined because the London Mac User Group had
become a feral wilderness and it was the nearest one.
I thought I might also try to join the Buckinghamshire one (if one
exists) but have had no success finding one, nor even finding *any*
group. All the supposed networks (like
http://www.macusersuk.org/index.html) seem to be abandoned.
So I'm curious how people find groups (and maybe it's just my search
algorithm being unhelpful – I don't use Facebook, either).
Cheers,
J
Anecdote mode:
While I was list admin I was contacted by the mafia I mean the people
running the list above (I think it was) who had all kinds of demands
about how the list and group should be run run. They insisted on
membership fees, organised in-person meetings (monthly, I think),
presentations to be organised by companies to offer discounts if you
signed up there and then - far more than I had time to do.
Rather than say 'don't you have anything better to do?' I did put it to
this group who thought membership fees would be the death-knell, and I
certainly didn't have time to check people had paid their £2 a month
and set up bank accounts etc for this. I told them we didn't want to do
that and they threatened me repeatedly with expelling us from the
official list of MUGs. I think there was a vague move to meeting
in-person for those interested, which fizzled out.
I said they were welcome to run that stuff for us but I was only able to
run the list (I became convinced none of them had jobs, and were happy
to spend their entire lives doing this) and they seemed to back off. Now
I suspect all those retired bullies are...less active, since the site is
broken and looks like it was optimised for a Powerbook 150.
Cheers,
Jason
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