A Lovely 10C Site!

I'm really confused by the stance taken by the Committee of Management of our Mac User Group in refusing to make the monthly magazine available for download from the Club's website only and not from the membership-exclusive FirstClass BBS.

They're claiming some bunkum about security and "retaining intellectual control " but if anything, the FC BBS is more secure than the website, if only from an obscurity viewpoint.

This claim is a holdover from the CoM decision of the last two years, since it was under that administration that the magazine was made available as a colour PDF or a B & W printed issue.

There are quite a number of elderly members who are having trouble accessing the website because they've mislaid the username & password issued to them in late December of 2015. Yet these members have no problem with accessing the BBS.

It's quite easy to limit access to any part of the FirstClass to members-only, and the fact that only members of the Club can join the FC BBS, so any CoM claims of poor security simply do not hold water.

This current (new) CoM's President was the Secretary last year and may be mouthpiecing the stance of previous CoMs regarding this alleged security issue.

I am in a position to bring this to the attention of the current CoM as I'm one of it's members., but I'll have to employ an uncommon degree of tact lest I offend various other CoM members.

We really do need to get this problem resolved. One of the three FC administrators has confessed to me that he has been personally forwarding PDF copies to FC members having website-access issues.

It's all very confusing, really.

Real tea, Earl Grey, hot. From a teapot. I have at least 11 different teapots, I should use them more frequently.

@matigo The may not reserve one for pickup but perhaps you can do what I did: arrange for the  Store to be the delivery location rather than your home address.

// @indigo

@matigo Mine took three weeks & three days to arrive.

I hate it when that happens. Late night supermarket shopping, locate the Dark Cherry yogurt, grab a tub & find you have raspberry & coconut flavour when you get home.

Who the f@€£ decided that coconut wirked in yogurt?

@matigo Bet you can't stop at just one……….

@matigo Life-induced. Had shivering fits overnight. I felt a lot colder than it really was.

We're two of a kind
Silence and I
We need a chance to talk things over
Two of a kind
Silence and I
We'll find a way to work it out

I can hear the cry
Of a leaf on a tree
As it falls to the ground
I can hear the call
Of an echoing voice
And there's no one around

When the children laughed
I was always afraid
Of the smile of the clown
So I close my eyes
Till I can't see the light
And I hide from the sound

If I cried out loud
Over sorrows I've known
And the secrets I've heard
It would ease my mind
Someone sharing the load
But I won't breathe a word

We're two of a kind
Silence and I
We need a chance to talk things over
Two of a kind
Silence and I
We'll find a way to work it out.