[Infopoint] Is this list working?

[alan c]

Tony Whitmore wrote:
>  Alan,
>
>  Yes the list is working.

Thanks!

I can now see this and also my post to the list this morning on the archive.
However, I still cannot see the post which is awaiting clearance. It was 
the lack of that which really troubled me. 
You may recall I had a few probles with email not long ago which 
complicated my initial use of the list (again, thanks for yours and 
others help then).

I received your reply here as email too - great, so that is ok and 
functional for me. However, I am not yet convinced that I am receiveing 
a copy of my own message (as in the list options configuration), but it 
may be more clear to me soon.

Thank you and others for your patience, it is much appreciated.
I expect to be quite competant with email and lists, but something very 
strange happened with email collection at my isp account a couple of 
months ago, which does not seem to be shared with their other customers 
(from their usenet group). I believe I have found at least part of the 
problem - related to some extraneous password information in my mail 
client thunderbird - and anyway I changed my list membership email 
address to another account which did not give a problem. That is the 
shortened story anyway.

I then went away for a month...... and only now can I start to commit to 
Infopoint events locally, and the BCF event in Bracknell is on 11th 
Dec.  so I am aware that time is very short for the initialising of 
something very new in this area (and to myself). And earlier comments 
suggested that the central arrangements with BCF may have become a bit 
rusty. I also saw a post or two with suggestions that some 
de-centralisation in organising Infopoint events was being considered as 
possibly useful.

My email-still-awaiting-moderation explains this I think and more, 
including my question/s about contact with BCF.
Lacking  that being responded to, and with time fast running out, I have 
already made contact with BCF by phone and this was toady, mid this 
Sunday morning (bless them).

They were flexible and receptive, although they were not obviously aware 
of Infopoint or any agreements. Under obvious  freebie constraints of 
not selling, the 35 pound table fee would I think be waived, and 
possibly material cost only sales may be also accepted - still to be 
negotiated though.

Apologies if this would normally be done centrallly, but I did not want 
to find any more delays from whatever source to make a pre xmas even 
less likely in Bracknell.

For a display at Bracknell I need to make application formally - no 
problem with this I think, except it would be better if I entered as 
(organisation, business name=) a LUG, or Infopoint etc, and Bracknell is 
clearly in Berkshire (SCLUG area). The SCLUG list is active, but in a 
different way to hants LUG, and I have not got a response from my 
request this morning for an answer about accpetance of me using a SCLUG  
'banner' for the event.

Tony - please advise me to what extent I should be using the 'Infopoint' 
banner  and (local) SCLUG , and in fact Hants LUG?
At this stage I need to fill the form in and fax it off. It is formal, 
so the strategy should be appropriate one for the longer term if possible.

The immediate question is - what 'business name (organisation name)' 
should/can I use? If all else fails I can use a non LUG name, although I 
would prefer to connect into the main projects or LUGs of course.

Thanks for your help
alan cocks