Re: Boink! Boink! Boink!


"Delivery Boy" <forDr.doughnut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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May I ask, why the secrecy regarding location?

I'm not trying to be controversial here. Nor am I taking the
piss. I have noticed this sort of set-up in a number of
uk.local news groups. Some have set-up a web page
with a members section. You have to be a regular poster
and have to apply to an "admissions" committee to be
veted before you can become a member. It seems to me
to be a very odd state of affairs.

Paranoia, DB, simple paranoia. But you wouldn't catch me being a member of
that sort of newsgroup - admissions committees? Blimey. Sounds like some
sort of boring old-fashioned golf club or the masons or something.


I have enquired as to why but I have yet to get a sane reply.

I guess it's all down to the activities of our old friends, the tr0lls,
though mind you, I for one would be delighted if our occasional meetings
seemed exciting enough to encourage a few of them to attend. Once you meet
people face to face it's much harder to be rude to them.

Personally I'd go for the middle road - don't actually post the exact
details in a public newsgroup, but allow anyone who wants to, to attend, by
just getting them to send an email to one of us to ask for details. Then
everyone would know who was going to be there, rather than wondering if that
shifty character in the corner is actually one of our occasional lurkers,
taking sneaky photos of us and sniggering up his sleeve.

Would you like to come DB? Anyone else out there who's a bit new around
here? My email address works if you take the doggie out first...

ally


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