Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008/10/9 Tony Whitmore <tony@???>:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:09:10 +0100, Dr Adam J Trickett
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> <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
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>> I think it's true, if you turn up at an event and nobody says
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>> hello you feel a bit odd. I know we all do it and forget to
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>> introduce ourselves, hence my resolution to try and always say
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>> hello to people at LUG meetings.
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> It's a good point, I totally agree. This was one of the reasons for setting
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> up the front desk, but with less of a rush of people turning up to
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> meetings, I wonder if this has fallen by the wayside a bit.
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> Tony
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Amen to all the above.
As an only-occasional visitor to the So'ton meetings I certainly find
that there are usually more new (or forgotten ;-) faces than
familiar/remembered ones, and I remember the first few visits feeling
a little bit out of it . I think that due to the often anarchic (lack
of) format of the Soton meetings a new arrival can feel a bit "what's
going on, what am I meant to be doing? (and who's that over there with
the blue hair?)".

That said, shiny gadgets (yours or the other person's) always make a
great ice-breaker for starting a conversation ;-)