From: George Bingham (georgeb1962_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 12:27:10 PDT
Rhonda, et. al.,
I understand what you mean about meetup.com being 'misleading',
but I really think it's just their way of "jumpstarting" a new meetup.
I'm from Kansas City, and although not huge, it's big enough to
have more than 3 Newton users living in this area, at least I would
think. But I only know of three KC area Newton users via this list. I
happen to have signed up to meetup.com, but also realize others may be
reluctant to do so. I have not noticed any spam email coming from
having signed up though. (I do think that I get the "once a month" or
so "international newton meetup day" announcement though.)
Anyway, once you actually get a "meetup" group going, then the
"misleading" part would go away since presumably actual people in the
group would be suggesting places and dates.
I figure you can't blame them for trying to make it easy to setup
an initial meetup in a given city.
My 2 cents,
George
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:17:03 -0700, Rhonda Hyslop
<0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net> wrote:
> * Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail <izabella.misiewiczsantos_at_neostrada.pl> [ 9 Aug 2004 09:41]:
> > I have seen people asking the mailing list if anyone lives in this city
> > or that to organize a meeting, well a little while ago, I discovered
> > http://www.meetup.com/
> > <snip>
> > The next International Newton Meetup Day is on Tuesday, August
> > 17 @ 8:00PM. To see the most up-to-date information on where
> > your locally organized Meetup will happen, visit:
> > http://newton.meetup.com
>
> Meh... as far as I've been able to tell without signing in, the program
> picks a nearby upcoming date out of thin air every month and calls it
> the "International <group> Meetup Day", then picks some locations out of
> thin air and calls them the suggested locations for people to vote on,
> presenting them as if people had suggested them, and listing the total
> number of people signed up worldwide as voting on those locations in
> that particular city... all when there is nobody actually signed up in
> the city you've chosen to view.
>
> So... it's a good idea in theory, I just don't like the misleading way
> they present things. But maybe that's just me :-)
>
> -Rhonda
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