Re: newsgroup: uk.comp.home.automation

["Harrison, Mark (Alliance)" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

- I sent a message to uk admin (Richard Letts)
- UK admin queried the naming, suggesting an alternative
- I agreed the alternative they suggested
- They forgot to post
- I chased
- They apologised
- They still didn't post
- I went on holiday
- I came back from holiday
- I went off on a company seminar which took up most of the last two weeks
- I bought some second hand Quad amps, which currently take up a lot of
time ;-)

In principle, I'll start chasing up again one of these days ... In
practice, I'm more than willing for someone else to start talking to
Richard for me.

Mark Harrison
European IT Manager, BP/Bovis Alliance
Tel: +44 20 8869 1439
Fax: +44 20 8423 7711

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:Mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 September 1999 20:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: newsgroup: uk.comp.home.automation


Tell me more!!!

M.


-----Original Message-----
From: Harrison, Mark (Alliance) <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: 27 September 1999 18:06
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: newsgroup: uk.comp.home.automation


>Ouch - don't ask nasty questions....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark McCall [mailto:Mark@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 20 September 1999 23:52
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: newsgroup: uk.comp.home.automation
>
>
>Any news on this one anyone???
>
>M.
>
>
>
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>Name of proposed newsgroup: uk.comp.home.automation
>
>Newsgroups Line: For those interested in Home Automation in the UK (and
>Europe?)
>
>Newsgroup to be Unmoderated.
>
>Rationale:
>
>The newsgroup comp.home.automation has existed for some time, and
>currently attracts several thousand messages each week.
>
>However, the majority of these messages concern implementation of X-10
>products in a 110v environment. (X-10 was a British standard for home
>automation that subsequently caught on in America - since it uses
>modulation of the power lines to carry inter-device control signals,
>products are specific to a particular mains voltage/carrier frequency).
>This makes the comp.home.automation group of less interest to the UK
>audience.
>
>In addition, there has been a recent growth in interest in the UK media
>in "home automation" (for example the recent BBC "Dream
House" series,
>and growth in the membership of the UK chapter of CEDIA (the Custom
>Electronics Design & Installation Association.) This to me suggests
that
>the UK market place is beginning to move from "early adopter"
to "early
>mainstream".
>
>While these issues may also be said to extend to mainland Europe, the
>lack of a current widely-supported "euro." organisation means
that uk.
>is an appropriate hierarchy. The name uk.comp.home.automation has been
>chosen to model the existing comp.home.automation.
>
>Charter:
>
>uk.comp.home.automation is an unmoderated newsgroup for users and
>potential users of "Home Automation". Abusive and angry posts
should not
>be posted to the newsgroup, but commercial adverts are welcome provided
>they genuinely advertise products and services suitable for deployment
>in a UK environment.
>
>
>Mark Harrison
>European IT Manager, BP/Bovis Alliance
>Tel: +44 181 869 1439
>Fax: +44 181 423 7711
>SMTP: mark.harriso-@xxxxxxx
>
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