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On 04/23/13 11:56, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Neil, > > You make a big thing about Matt being in the US. Matt was born and > brought up in Devon. (Wasn't he at your wedding?) Indeed he was... did I ever say otherwise...? Am I lying by stating that he lives in the US ? > Your continuing edits of the IRC page on the dcglug website are > becoming tedious. Your latest one: > > IRC channels > Internet Relay Chat is a way to chat with other DCGLUG members quickly > and easily through your web browser or a dedicated IRC client. > #DCLUG - Founded by Neil Stone, who is based in Cornwall and whose > posts > can be found on the very first page of the LUG archives. > #DCGLUG - Founded by Matt Lee, who is based in the US. > > is just petty. > > As for your little "banner advert" recently - that was just taking the > piss. You have no right to advertise your services blatantly like > that. And your current QR code avatar? That has to go to as it's > nothing more than the same thing. > > Please remove the QR code advert now. NO > > So yes, you had had you nice little IRC channel running on behalf on > the group, and we thanked you for it, but when it became unreliable > and we, the group decided to move elsewhere, rather than just accept > it (or even breathe a sigh of relief that you now no-longer have to > provide the service!) you threw your toys out of your pram and are now > causing a lot of hassle for everyone else. First of all, no one thanked me for it... all I ever got was "it's broken", "fix it" and similar kinds of comments... > So grow up for goodness sake. Either stay with us, or go somewhere > else. Stop pretending that DCLUG is the "one" channel - it's not, it's > just one other channel on Freenode. The majority of us are using > #DCGLUG as that's what the group is called. > > Right now: 16 people in #DCGLUG, 8 in #DCLUG. Including your stupid > Tux bot which was the main reason I left your server in the first > place - you demonstrated just what an idiot you were by handing Jon > Davey the "bomb". Gee, thanks. After coaching to get onto IRC, he > comes online for the first time ever to get help with the Raspberry > Pi, and the first thing you do is hand him a kick-bomb and not knowing > what happened he doesn't re-join. Some people have no sense of humour... > Hope you're happy with that. With some people having no sense of humour ? not particularly... > At least there are some of us here willing to genuinely help - FWIW: I > asked Jon to post his SD card to me and then I did the install, setup, > etc. and posted it back to him. What did you do? You kicked him out of > your IRC channel. Fat lot of use you are. "I know, I'll join an IRC channel, discover who is in charge and then provoke them..." What was expected really ? > Same for Grants email earlier: > >> On 04/23/13 09:35, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: >>> Is there any way to show the number of users in a channel from the >>> website? > > To which you replied: > >> Yes... > > fat lot of help that was. Why did you even bother to reply? It was an accurate reply was it not ? Had the question been "Is there a way to show the number of users in a given channel, and if so how ?" that would have had a reply along the lines of "Yes, and we can achieve this by installing additional modules in to Drupal and configuring it as required" > > So I'm asking you now: Join in, help, support, spread. Be part of it > or stay out of it. Lurk, hide, whatever, but if you want to be an > active part of it (editing the website, etc.) then do it > constructively or stay away. I think you will find that I have been an active part of the group for a hell of a long time... see references to the first page of the list archives. > If you do not want to be constructive then I feel that you have no > right editing the website at all. > > So join us. Be part of it. Bring your expertise into the group. Share, > help, educate because that's what we're for. > Indeed, that is what WE are here for... I have never said otherwise. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq