Hi everyone,

As many of you will know, I’ve been a little preoccupied with family matters over the last couple of months, and haven’t had time to do much with the website.

However, just before I jet off to Spain for a couple of weeks, I’ve managed to put together some results from the first part of the survey. More will follow when I get back.

Best wishes,

Neil.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the GLUG survey - I’ll be publishing the results shortly.

The lucky winner of the year’s free membership and GLUG towel was Gary Nicholls - congratulations!

I’m not sure that this is really what’s meant by Altitude Diving, but it’s quite fun!

In case you haven’t already read the August Meeting Minutes, the GLUG Summer BBQ in Brighton has had to be cancelled due to lack of interest - only 5 members said they could attend. Thanks again to those who volunteered their time and effort.

I have changed the dates for the dive in Littlehampton in 2006 due to popular demand. It’s now a two-day event on 24-25 June. Booking forms will be available from 1st January 2006.

Does any one know of a gay or gay friendly London hotel or B&B that may be willing to donate a long weekend (or even longer) accommodation package that could be offered as an auction or raffle prize at Diving for Life this year? Also any shops (diving or otherwise) that may be able to donate raffle prizes? Call me - see the contacts page for my phone number, or email me by logging in, and then clicking the envelope at the top of the post.

A few members have reported problems when trying to make comments to posts on this site - the website is rejecting their comments on the basis that they’re posting from an address that is known to generate spam.

If you use Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, or many of the other web-based email readers to read your email, and you follow a link within the email to the GLUG website, then the website is more likely to reject your comment, simply because so much Spam comes via these services.

The solution, for GLUG members, is to make sure you’re logged in to the website before you try to make a comment - that way the website knows that you’re a genuine user, and will allow your comment.

For non-members, I’m obviously not going to give clues on how to avoid the Spam catcher, since the Spammers will probably read this too! However, if you find you can’t make a comment, please contact me, and I’ll try to help.

P.S.: Did you know you can select “website tips” from the “News Categories” menu on the right, to get more useful information about using this website?