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*** Press release about a local event ***
The first major Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Sam Coupé Computer Show (ORSAM 2003) in 5 years in the UK, is taking place next Saturday, 1st November, in Norwich.
The venue will be at the Alec Bussey Scout Centre off Rowington Road, near Grove Road and the Norwich Bus Station. Open from 10am to 4pm. Entry free. Refreshments available. Free car parking.
There is a map available (under 'travel') on the show website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/speccyverse/orsam.htm
A variety of traders will be present. Visitors from as far away as Germany and Cornwall have said they will be attending. The show will opened by Councillor Steve Land, of the Green Party.
There will be a raffle, and a bring and buy stall.
While ORSAM 2003 officially only supports the Spectrum and SAM range, Z88 and ZX81 will be there unofficially. If next show happens, it may widen to officially include all Sinclair (and related) 8-bit formats. QL users will be able to get taste of what the March Norwich Quanta Workshop will be like.
On 2003-10-31 13:18:19 +0000 Tarquin Mills speccyverse@ntlworld.com wrote:
*** Press release about a local event ***
I regard this as off-topic for the main list. It has nothing to do with GNU/Linux, free software or unix-style systems. Please take it to the more normal announcement channels. ALUG is not a free advert service for unrelated commercial events.
I would be surprised if other ALUGgers would be welcome at your event, because in news:d5df75414c.planet14@boyznow.net you described ALUG as "unfriendly" people who make "unprovoked attacks" that you only watch because "you cannot just walk away in the long run". (Note this is neither an attack nor unprovoked.)
MJR wrote:
you described ALUG as "unfriendly" people who make "unprovoked attacks" that you only watch because "you cannot just walk away in the long run".
I did a google news search on "speccyverse" to find out what all this is about - Tarquin, you must have been having a bad day when you wrote that news message. I hope it's just a passing mood.
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I'm more concerned about the chap Roy who said that he had joined a local LUG and tried to get some help on irc only to receive a very rude brush-off. I have emailed him, and posted to the newsgroups, in reply.
I hope that he is either mistaken (i.e. it's not ALUG that he has contacted) or else has paraphrased what was said on irc inaccurately. I do wonder if he is mistaken since I don't recognise the tone or manner or writing style as being typical of anyone in alug. For example, quoting from Roy's usenet posting:
ME: Hi room LUGmember: "room" lol this aint AOL. [snip] ME: I have RH9 on my PC and my kids PCs all have XP and they used to all connect to internet thru mine(network). can anybody please tell me if this is still possible as otherwise I may have to reconsider XP. LUG: Can you read ? Me: can you point me in direction of what I should be reading please? LUG: the MANUAL <<
Roy, if you are here and it really happened like this on the Anglian LUG irc channel, then I'd like to apologise on behalf of the majority of alug members who do not behave in this loutish manner.
Does anyone on the list recall this happening? I'm not often on irc so have no idea. I have emailed him privately and posted a couple of follow-ups to usenet.
Best wishes to all Syd
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:27:25AM +0000, Syd Hancock wrote:
I'm more concerned about the chap Roy who said that he had joined a local LUG and tried to get some help on irc only to receive a very rude brush-off. I have emailed him, and posted to the newsgroups, in reply.
Syd,
I wouldn't bother, I remember the guy in question coming on to irc, it was when a few people were talking about various things and this guy demanded personal attention. At first he asked about setting up "internet connection sharing, like in windows" and was told he would need a nat/masquerade firewall. When he was given a few links to pages to read he told us he didn't need a firewall as that wasn't what he wanted, so he was given some more help, when it turned out that he basically wanted someone to talk him through it and fix it for him he got told to go RTFM (as in the links we had posted him) and then made a nuisance of himself telling people that he didn't want to read all those pages "because it isn't applicable to me".
I also emailed him directly and with his rude reply that I got I wasn't surprised at how he got treated on irc, you also have to remember that u.l.e-a is now a troll bridge and the amount of interesting posts that appear there is somewhat limited.
Adam
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