On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mark Roberts wrote:
The first message that made it to our list suggested that ALUG were thinking of having a meeting in Cambridge at some point. I was just wondering, if ALUG has members in Cambridge that want to meet, why don't they come along to Cambridge LUG meetings? Just curious.
Well, when I was living in Cam an install fest was organised and promoted as being at CB2, I replied to the post on cam.misc asking exactly where CB2 was as I didn't know what or where CB2 was and never got a reply :-( I also think I subscribed to the mailing list at the same and never got any mail so I figured that maybe the camlug didn't exist or something.
I think the other difference that I can tell is that the camlug meet on a regular basis but don't bring computers etc. whereas the alug meet (physically) less often but usually hire a hall and bring computers etc. so you have to make more of an effort but less often but when you do make the effort it is usually going to be worth it as you know there are going to be other people there to give advice and support etc. and fix your broken computer which happens quite alot.
One other thing which I don't know why is that not many people on the alug list knew that the camlug even existed but I think quite a few have now signed up to the camlug mailing list.
Adam