[OFFICIAL] RE: [GZG] [LST] Yahoo group; official?

Hi all,

I thought I'd best jump in here and explain a couple of things before
this gets unnecessarily heated...  :-/

First off, and most importantly, any confusion that has occurred over all this
is quite probably mostly MY FAULT. Yes, Jaime did contact me a while back to
discuss the the idea of a forum linked to the GZG website, and (very kindly)
offered to put something together for it and to look after it should it be
adopted as "official". Some time soon after that, as far as Real Life(tm) is
concerned for me, "La merde frappe le ventilateur", (as the French probably
don't say.....) and I found myself so busy with stuff that I really couldn't
get round to thinking about this project any further.
This is not an excuse, BTW, it's an explanation - I SHOULD have given
it some attention, and even when Jaime dropped me an email to say that he'd
got stuff ready for me to look at I still couldn't find the time to get onto
it, I'm ashamed to say.

In between these events, there was the first round of discussion about the
merits of mailing list vs. forums on the list, from which
(as Paul mentioned) the general consensus seemed to be pro-list and
anti-forum. Now, when I originally OK'd Jaime looking at this, my
hope was that the list could happily coexist alongside a forum, and I really
never considered that it would adversely affect the list. Please remember in
all this that I'm not a computer expert, or even
much of an enthusiast - to me it's still very much a typewriter that
doesn't need tippex, with the added advantage that I can look at porn
on it.... er, obviously I mean "do vital research on it...."  ;-)

Now, I just thought I'd better post this now as some sort of an explanation of
how we got to this situation.... I'm still up to my neck in RL(tm) matters,
including moving house sometime in the next couple of weeks, and at this point
I haven't even managed to read all the list traffic on this subject that has
come in over the last few
days - but I've skimmed enough to realise that things were getting a
bit heated, and I didn't want any blame being put in the wrong place
- Mea Culpa on this, and as soon as I've been able to catch up with
the mails and figure out what the overall consensus of opinion is then maybe
we cab sort out what is that best way to go. The bottom line, for the moment
at least, is that I am still VERY much in favour of the mailing list
continuing to do its excellent and entertaining job, and I wouldn't want to
see that threatened by anything new. However, if we can sort out some kind of
additional forum or whatever that can happily exist alongside it, that would
be fine too.

To Jaime - thanks for you efforts so far, sorry if my inattention has
caused any embarrassment, and I'll get back to you as soon as I've caught up
with things; to everyone else, please feel free to continue
comments and discussions on this subject - this email is not to kill
the discussion, just to try and explain what happened and where the
blame, if any, properly lies!  :-/

Thanks for reading,

Jon (GZG)

> > Might be a very good idea, as it is it does look like an official

St Jon said:
> with the added advantage that I can look at porn

<weg> We know you're not *really* doing that, else you'd have more Phalon
stuff in production.