[SlugBug] More weirdness from Richard Ibbotson

[Neil McGovern]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:43:45PM +0100, Gary Stimson wrote:
> >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.

Ok, just so we get it right, it's the:
[S]outh Yorkshire [L]inux [U]ser [G]roup / [B]SD [U]ser [G]roup.

It's sorta important to make a distinction, we don't want to step on
each other's toes. See the first few posts to the list in the archives
for a full discussion.

> >
> > 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.
> >

Good good.

> > 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.
> >

Erm... This is news to me, and I suppose anyone one else on the admin
team. It certainly hasn't been posted to slugbug-owner.

> > 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.
> >

I'm sure we annouced it...

> > 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.
> >

Voting? Erm... I didn't see anything on the list...

In general, I think I may contact Richard directly (and warn my big nice
team of lawyers) to find out what the hell is going on. Unless anyone
has other suggestions that is.

Neil
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