[SlugBug] More weirdness from Richard Ibbotson

[Gary Stimson]

Hi Slugbug,

I posted to the Sheflug (the other Sheffield Linux Users Group) mailing 
list to publicise the last Slugbug meet. (I didn't attend the meeting in 
the end, owing to lethargy from the muggy day, but that's another story).

A week later I received a very strange email from Richard Ibbotson, who 
looks after the Sheflug website and organises the meetings. The body of the 
email is below in full.

The mail is very contradictory (unless it's somehow possible to send 
"pages" from slugbug to the police and solicitors without reading them 
first!!) and downright weird.

I have sat on the mail for a week, wondering what to do with it. In the end 
I decided to post it to Slubbug because I think it demonstrates how 
fundamentally broken Sheflug is. Richard Ibbotson puts a lot of effort into 
organising meetings and speakers for Sheflug and it's a shame that he takes 
such a dictatorial, paranoid and delusional approach to running the group.

Thank heavens for SlugBug...

Gary


>On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Gary Stimson wrote:
> > As this list is often used to announce events at LUGs in foreign places 
> like
> > West Yorkshire, I'm sure it's OK to publicise a meet of "the other 
> Sheffield
> > Linux (and BSD) user group" tonight 7pm onwards at the Rutland Arms 
> (near Pop
> > Centre / Spearmint Rhino). There's no agenda or presentations - it's 
> just an
> > informal get-together. The pub has a wireless network if you'd like to 
> bring a
> > laptop.
> > http://www.slugbug.org.uk
>
>
>
>This isn't anything to do with personal nastiness or anything of that
>sort.  All I'm doing is explaining something.  Nothing more than that.
>I don't want to be unpleasant to anyone.
>
>The Slug-bug thing - or whatever it is - caused so much trouble that we
>had to send several pages to a local police department.  That and the
>fact that Eversheds over in Leeds became involved.  Eversheds only work
>if they can get a lot of money out of someone.  They are our ShefLUG
>solicitors.
>
>No one is telling me what Slug-bug is and at the last meeting I was told
>by the ShefLUG members to ignore it and not to take any notice of it.
>So, it would make life a lot easier for myself and other people if you could
>manage to drop it from our list.
>
>Hopefully this isn't something that will cause problems for yourself or
>anyone else.  Please write back if you want to discuss this but as
>Richard Stevenson over in New Zealand explained some months ago this
>matter is now closed.  It's been voted out due the extreme nature of
>the case in question.  End of story.
>
>Kind regards
>
>
>
>
>Richard