[LAF] Sat 17th Curry

[Ian Gregory]

On Thursday I will be setting off to help someone sail a small boat from 
Newcastle to Cherbourg and I don't expect to be back until about the end 
of May. So before I leave:

There have been some recent posts to the LAF list that have been held 
for moderation due to "too many recipients". When this happens I get an 
email and I have to go to the web interface, log in, and approve the 
post manually. While I am away I will not be able to do this. I think 
the default limit of 10 recipients is reasonable (if I am talking to 
people on the LAF list why would I be copying the message to lots of 
other people as well?) but I could increase it if people want me to.  
Otherwise people just need to be aware of the fact that emails will not 
reach the list if they are sent to more than 9 other email addresses as 
well. If there are people who are interested in what we have to say here 
then they should subscribe and then we all know who we are talking too.

I have been having general problems keeping up to date with all my email 
and in particular with what is going on on the LAF list. The problem is 
partly that some subscribers are sending HTML email which appears in my 
mail client as gibberish that I don't have time to decipher. Another 
thing is that I often get 3 or 4 copies of Ed's emails, one (or 
sometimes more) to the LAF list and others to various other lists of his 
that I am somehow on.

Finally, regarding curry nights, since I live outside London it costs me 
over 8 quid to get in to London, so unless I am there anyway the cost of 
the curry itself is not the limiting factor. I am sorry I have not 
managed to get along to one yet but I hope to do so after I get back 
from my voyage.

Personally I think it would work best if we had a regular weekly time 
and venue, so that if (say) I was in London on a Saturday then I could 
just go along to a specific resturant at a specific time and know that 
there was a reasonable chance that other LAF members were there (and if 
no one else was there it wouldn't really matter as long as it did a good 
cheap curry). Otherwise it just seems like too much effort to organise 
and keep track of.

Apparently people involved with the new social centre at Bowl Court in 
Shoreditch are planning to start up a regular Sunday evening cafe so 
that would be another option for a regular weekly LAF social/food 
meeting (during the summer I am well up for the idea of picnics as well 
but that is obviously weather dependent).

Ian