Smug domain name and website

[Jason Kitcat]

Hi all

Graham Street has been in touch to ask about what to do with the sussexmug.org.uk domain and single web page. He has been kindly hosting it all after I got out of the hosting business. Graham’s retirement means he will need to stop hosting by 2024, which is when the domain expires.

Should we let it just expire unless we have any volunteers?

All the best, Jason
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[Gillian Snoxall]

What would happen if we let it expire? Would SMUG cease to exist? We can't let that happen, surely!

Gilly



On 23 Oct 2023, at 17:28, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi all

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[Graham Street]

SMUG is a Google Group so would carry on running without the domain name or website.

However, the website is a single page that points to the Google Group and is a way of finding the group if you didn’t know there was one for SMUG.

Graham


> On 23 Oct 2023, at 17:49, Gillian Snoxall <gillian...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What would happen if we let it expire? Would SMUG cease to exist? We can't let that happen, surely!

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[andrew lancaster]

Gilly,

It would be a tragedy. Such a helpful group and it has been a lifeline to many of us.

Andrew

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> On 23 Oct 2023, at 17:49, Gillian Snoxall <gillian...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What would happen if we let it expire? Would SMUG cease to exist? We can't let that happen, surely!

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

I can host it no problem

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[Gillian Snoxall]

Fantastic, Sam! Well done – and thank you.

Gilly

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I can host it no problem

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[Philip Tomlinson]

Very generous Sam. It would be very sad for it all to end. 

Does anyone know though, if SMUG has had fewer users / contributors in the latter days?

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Fantastic, Sam! Well done – and thank you.

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[Graham Street]

Just to reiterate my earlier reply.  The SMUG group would not have ended. This website and domain name is just a single page that points to the Google Group. I’ve hosted the page and annually paid to renew the domain name for almost 14 years. It’s time to pass this responsibility onwards. I’d suspected SAM would offer but needed to involve Jason as he registered the domain name.  

Graham 

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On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:02, 'Philip Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Very generous Sam. It would be very sad for it all to end. 

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[Jason Kitcat]

Wonderful and thanks all. 

Graham and Sam - let me know if I need to do anything to facilitate. 

All the best, Jason 

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On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:15, Graham Street <graham...@streets-ahead.com> wrote:

Just to reiterate my earlier reply.  The SMUG group would not have ended. This website and domain name is just a single page that points to the Google Group. I’ve hosted the page and annually paid to renew the domain name for almost 14 years. It’s time to pass this responsibility onwards. I’d suspected SAM would offer but needed to involve Jason as he registered the domain name.  

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[andrew lancaster]

Thank you Sam. So generous of you - and so reassuring for we oldies! 

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On 23 Oct 2023, at 20:53, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Wonderful and thanks all. 

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[nick_p...@mac.com]

Many thanks Sam and many thanks Graham for keeping the web page going for 14 years.

SMUG is a reassuring safety net in spite of the fact that we must all be becoming a bit more computer literate as there seems to be less traffic these days. SMUG must be coming up for its 25th birthday soon?

Nick

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[Jason Kitcat]

I think it’s older than that. Stephen Watson may be able to cast some light on it… I re-started it around 2000 or 2001 but I believe it had been running before then.

Jason

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On 24 Oct 2023, at 07:58, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Many thanks Sam and many thanks Graham for keeping the web page going for 14 years.

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[Virginia Routh]

It’s always been reassuring to know SMUG was there, in particular Sam, thanks to whom most of us are quite computer literate now.  

On 24 Oct 2023, at 08:56, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I think it’s older than that. Stephen Watson may be able to cast some light on it… I re-started it around 2000 or 2001 but I believe it had been running before then.

To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/219C4C4F-38D6-49B4-97B8-26E75B11D68F%40icloud.com.

[Stephen Watson]

Hi all you lovely SMUGgers,

BIG thanks to Sam for agreeing to host. BIG thanks to admins over so long. BIG thanks to Sam for being to brilliantly helpful maybe even more than the others (controversial!) and BIG thanks to all you lovely SMUGgers for being such a wonderful crew over so many years.

As Jason said, the club was going before he became involved but I have to say I don’t know when it started. I remember being in the basement(?) of a pub not that far from Brighton station for meetings when someone brought along a black PowerBook with a rollerball mouse wheel thing and showed us Adobe Photoshop which hadn’t been out that long and our collective jaws dropped. Photoshop was released in 1987 as a sort of time guide.

I’d started a general computer club in Hanover Community Centre with a guy from Hove sometime in 1985 I think and took along my Macintosh 128K one evening. I remember showing a B&W QuickTime movie the size of a postage stamp called The Kitchen of Tomorrow ( https://youtu.be/odk2MexTxHg?si=JS7z-xE0fkMCAE6k ) and I remember clearly wondering “Why would anyone want to watch a movie on a computer?” A good thing nobody ever put me in charge! 🤣

I imagine SMUG took shape a few years after that. We moved around to a number of venues before anchoring ourselves in the aether as now.

Who on earth would have imagined back then that Apple would be what they are now, what the shape of the Mac would be and that we’d mostly all carry around wireless networked computers in our pockets?! Truly the stuff of science fiction. Or … that SMUG would be here around 30+ years later? 🙂

All the best to all,

Stephen

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung

On 24 Oct 2023, at 08:57, 'Jason Kitcat' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I think it’s older than that. Stephen Watson may be able to cast some light on it… I re-started it around 2000 or 2001 but I believe it had been running before then.

To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/219C4C4F-38D6-49B4-97B8-26E75B11D68F%40icloud.com.

[Adam Pymble]

A trifle late to the conversational party and by the sounds of things quite a late entry to SMUG for I think I first joined approximately 12 years ago. 

Just to echo all the above and thank all in the community who've hosted and posted, replied and helped us mortals thrive, with all our Apple devices. I concur it has gotten a little quieter round here of late, but remain so grateful for the group's, regularly helpful and warm replies  given in many ways the walled orchard of the Apple ecosystem gets more complicated as we rely upon more and more devices to help us along each day. Even then, "turn it off and on again" is still a wise first step!

So grateful to SMUG, delighted to hear the domain and webpage pointing people here will continue (t'was how I first found you) and here's to many more years of friendly threads of honest questions and helpful replies!

Cheerio

Adam