Regarding 'influential people'...
I try not to judge too much but as a northern peasant stranded down here for family reasons I do find some southern boat owners a bit too, er..., self regarding shall we say. Retired captains of industry etc with £½m boats that they pay someone else to look after. Some of us though have boats in the second-hand car price range (£6K in my case) bought as a project to work on as much as float about in. I get a kick from having a shower onboard knowing that I made the shower room and installed the hot water system.
If that all seems tangential to the original issue, there is a link. Many IT phobic GOBA members are people who prior to retirement had PAs to do their secretarial stuff and an IT department to set things up to be fool proof. When I suggest that committee members should (for example) set up their email client to use a GOBA email address rather than rely on me setting up mail forwarding to their personal address several of them were hostile, though mostly convinced now.
A few people have mentioned my position as Membership Secretary and implied that means I can change stuff. In committee-land it doesn't. Committee members are expected to do the routine work required in their position but decisions are taken in committee meetings. I think that's pretty normal in all voluntary bodies. However anything that reduces workload and cost usually gets through, so I remain hopeful about the arcane numbering system.
I'm amazed that an apparently simple techie techie question got such a response. Thanks all, you can get back to work now.
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On 08/02/2021 21:46, mick wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 20:25:21 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
Do you have a boat though? ;-)
Steve (No boat)
Nope. :-)
(Totally OT - and apologies to the list for the waste of electrons. Moderators may decide to react to my responses the way I react to "entitled" supposedly "influential" persons.)
Mick
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