[wellylug] [Pgug] WellyLUG rekindling

[Hugh Davenport]

I suggested fb cos I find meetup to suck. Any suggestions welcome 

Ian Beardslee <ian at karearea.gen.nz> wrote:

>Eww seriously if FB is used as the primary, secondary or even tertiary
>communication method you can count me out.
>
>As for mailing lists, if people think there is a need for change
>https://onlinegroups.net could be an alternative.  Might need to
>convince
>them that WellyLug would be a good thing to sponsor in terms of giving
>a
>free site.
>
>Not immediately sure of an alternative to FB for events organisation,
>but
>there has to be something that isn't going to steal our souls or our
>first
>born.
>
>
>On Thu, March 14, 2013 9:43 am, Hugh Davenport wrote:
>> The 90's loves me :D
>>
>> I will probably set up a fb account, and do events through there
>> as well as advertising on a website of some form.
>>
>> I will probably keep the mailing list, though may take it away and
>> redefine it slightly. For now, I'll probably keep the existing one
>> until we actually have a meeting xD
>>
>> You should join
>http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug
>> if
>> you aren't already on there
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>> On 2013-03-13 16:52, Jonathan Harker wrote:
>>> My suggestions:
>>>
>>> 1. It's now 2013 and folks use Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.
>>>     The 90s called and want their mailing lists back.
>>>
>>> 2. If you're going to carry on using a mailing list, use someone
>>>     else's mail server. The Naos "no advertising at all" rule caused
>>>     a weekly flame war because apparently some eejit
>>>     decided that posting a Linux-related job URL, or saying,
>>>     "Hey does someone want to buy my spare graphics card for
>>>     ten bucks" counts as advertising. Honestly, this became
>>>     nearly half the content of the mailing list when I gave up
>>>     several years ago, and also, they're wrong.
>>>
>>> 3. Jethro is your friend, if he's still around, he's keen and
>>>     enthusiastic...
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