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John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 06:26, David Reynolds wrote:
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the social list was for organising social events rather than random babbling about the company you happen to be annoyed with this week?
You must be new to the ALUG lists, in addition to being mistaken. If you read them regularly you'll find that Mark makes useful contributions to this and other organisations.
... social != lists, he's been on main for a while... Mark *sometimes* makes useful contributions, granted, I wouldn't class it as often, these days, though. Certainly, he used to make some well informed, concise, posts...
I say above that you must be new, as most of those subscribed to the various ALUG lists, conform to the norm by trimming their quotes, see: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html http://tinyurl.com/b4wfc
Things done in a rush, an all that... quoting is an art form, learned only through practise.
It is also quite unusual for those subscribed to this list to use pejorative phrases when replying to posts to the lists.
It's actually quite unusual to see anything on this particular list, usually people looking for things (like, say, bar billiards tables) or to inform of an up and coming ALUG social event (like, say, a bbq that people can attend if they want)...
Personally, I'd rather see experiences with companies limited to the minimum possible on this list, asking fine, presenting the information to the social list, as fact, without being asked for $opinions, less so... that's what blogs and planet are for.
For planet alug see: http://www.otherwayup.org.uk/planets/alug/ Which is some evil hacked up system that Mark wrote. Certainly it used to have some 'issues' as soon as a post did anything in the slightest 'wrong', I tend to read less and less of it now as I read some other sources that have a lot of the same posts on.
Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk