Re: Australian MUG Problems
Re: Australian MUG Problems
- Subject: Re: Australian MUG Problems
- From: Deborah Shadovitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:49:15 -0700
On 5/31/04 10:26 AM, "Amaya Gergoff Bengoa" <email@hidden> typed:
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Do you know who is your ambassador or was the ambassador for your group?
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he/she should have the login and pass to login into the Apple data base
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and change the info about your group and contacts.
Greg's problem is the accuracy of other groups, not of his own. Each group's
info is only as good as the Ambassador or leader for that group, so that's
the problem. Also, anyone can invent a group and list it there. There may be
some safeguard but not much. To be fair, that Apple supports user groups is
terrific, but it's not like they can send out investigators/visitors to
check up on group activity or call all the contacts on a regular basis to
verify info.
FWIW, the database is a lot better these days than it was in '94 when I had
to personally phone most of the then-3,000 groups listed in order to put
together the NAUGSAW (Nat'l UG Conference). I paid for the calls myself,
created my own database, then paid my own money for the upload time when
Apple asked for the info I'd collected. Back in those days a group could not
update its own info. In another example, one of our (then-LAMG) board
members spent a year (yes) getting them to add more area codes to our groups
lookup. It was part of our monthly board meeting report.
Greg's best bet is to phone/email each group on his own and maintain his own
contact database. That's what I have had to do for Southern California.
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Deborah Shadovitz
Here for the San Gabriel Valley (Pasadena, CA) mug <
http://sgvmug.org>
Personal site at <
http://www.shadovitz.com>
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