From Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com Tue Nov 13 22:56:54 2001 From: Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com (Aberforth's Goat) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:56:54 +0100 Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] New file uploaded to HP4GU-FAQ References: Message-ID: <002a01c16c96$7d9efc30$e500a8c0@shasta> Heidi uploads, then > ::beams:: then > : ducks out of sight to go write Malfoy FAQ I was just moaping about no one's ever posting here, when I realized that I had forgotten to mention that your new ff FAQ: it looks grand! (Of course, with my plain vanilla tastes in fanfic - strictly PoU list stuff these days - I'm not in a position to judge.) Do have fun with Malfoy! Is there an ETA on getting our latest contributions up and going? Baaaaaa! Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) _______________________ "Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery...." From pennylin at swbell.net Wed Nov 14 00:47:33 2001 From: pennylin at swbell.net (Penny & Bryce) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:47:33 -0600 Subject: FAQs ETA References: <002a01c16c96$7d9efc30$e500a8c0@shasta> Message-ID: <3BF1BF25.8090304@swbell.net> Hi -- Aberforth's Goat wrote: > Is there an ETA on getting our latest contributions up and going? Yes. ETAs everyone??!! Inquiring minds want to know.... Mike -- I *loved* the Pettigrew FAQ. I had hoped to have more time to comment in full ... that's why I hadn't said anything yet. Sorry you felt neglected! Have fun in London!!!! Penny From aiz24 at hotmail.com Wed Nov 14 10:49:46 2001 From: aiz24 at hotmail.com (Amy Z) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:49:46 -0500 Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] New file uploaded to HP4GU-FAQ Message-ID: M the G asked: >Is there an ETA on getting our latest contributions up and going? I have been plugging away at mine (Lupin) and just haven't had much computer time the last couple of weeks. However, at this very moment I have a few nice quiet early-morning hours of my day off to do some more. Will keep you posted . . . Amy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From neilward at dircon.co.uk Thu Nov 15 19:57:30 2001 From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:57:30 -0000 Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] FAQs ETA References: <002a01c16c96$7d9efc30$e500a8c0@shasta> <3BF1BF25.8090304@swbell.net> Message-ID: <005401c16e0f$c3090e80$9d3570c2@c5s910j> Penny said: > Yes. ETAs everyone??!! Inquiring minds want to know.... Aaargh!! Gotta bite the bullet and start pulling Snape together. I've been avoiding it, as if you hadn't noticed. Kelley offered to help with it, but we haven't progressed much. The other major one still staring at me is "Charms & Spells". I've just had a week off work, but I've been planning a house move in the near future, so haven't done anything else much other than check out house prices and chill out like an ancient housecat. ETAs - I'm going to say before the end of the year, which sounds ridiculous relative to our original plans, I know. Neil From Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com Tue Nov 27 10:40:26 2001 From: Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com (Aberforth's Goat) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:40:26 +0100 Subject: The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups) References: Message-ID: <001001c1772f$ed7d88c0$e500a8c0@shasta> Penny enthused, > Mike, you owe me a new keyboard! Let's all take the Goat's approach & > come up with hilarious responses to all the people who failed to read > the VFAQ. I love it, love it, love it! But actually, I'm feeling just a little bad about making fun of Sharon's gleam question, for the simple reason that it'd take one hell of newbie to figure out what we've already said about it. (Besides: I'd hate for the whole mod list to have to buy Penny two or three new keyboards per week ... ) Our FAQ (or Pensieve or whatever) doesn't presently say much about the gleam. I assume that CMC's Dumbledore FAQ will have several hundred pages dedicated to the question, but since it's not up yet, there are only a few cursory thoughts in Penny's mysteries FAQ. Yes, the VFAQ, mentions the gleam and suggests that "you can read various opinions on this in the group archives, particularly around the time GoF was released." Which is all very well - but anyone who has ever researched a FAQ knows that actually *finding* anything in the !#$% message section fulfills most of the prerequisites to beatification. * * * * * * * * I'm not sure what we can do about this, however. Does anyone know how CMC's doing on his FAQ? I thought he only needed to retool his character sketch. Should he be encouraged to have a Very Bad Conscience? (BTW, Thanks to Mr. Walton for getting me back to A.A. Milne ... ) And for now, how about linking the appropriate VFAQ line to Penny's Mystery FAQ? In faqt, howabout adding the VFAQ to the *FAQ* web so that VFAQ readers will be exposed directly to the FAQs themselves - instead of being routed into an obscure corner of the file section? However, doing this would require editing the FAQ web, and I'm not sure how that is done, nor who (besides Steve) is able to do it. Heidi and I both have pages in the files section that are ready to go online. Should we recruit another html techie from the main list to help Steve and Paul Kippes carry the load? (I'd be willing to try, but my html "skills," laughable though they are, probably aren't the kind of humor the group needs ... ) Baaaaaa! Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) _______________________ "Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery...." From aiz24 at hotmail.com Tue Nov 27 11:18:46 2001 From: aiz24 at hotmail.com (Amy Z) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:18:46 -0500 Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups) Message-ID: I'm just forwarding this to Neil, whom I suspect is not keeping up with the FAQ list. Neil, it has a suggestion re: the VFAQ file. Amy >From: "Aberforth's Goat" >Reply-To: HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com >To: , >Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups) >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:40:26 +0100 > >Penny enthused, > > > Mike, you owe me a new keyboard! Let's all take the Goat's approach & > > come up with hilarious responses to all the people who failed to read > > the VFAQ. I love it, love it, love it! > > > >But actually, I'm feeling just a little bad about making fun of Sharon's >gleam >question, for the simple reason that it'd take one hell of newbie to figure >out what we've already said about it. (Besides: I'd hate for the whole mod >list to have to buy Penny two or three new keyboards per week ... ) > >Our FAQ (or Pensieve or whatever) doesn't presently say much about the >gleam. I assume that CMC's Dumbledore FAQ will have several hundred pages >dedicated to the question, but since it's not up yet, there are only a few >cursory thoughts in Penny's mysteries FAQ. > >Yes, the VFAQ, mentions the gleam and suggests that "you can read various >opinions on this in the group archives, particularly around the time GoF >was >released." Which is all very well - but anyone who has ever researched a >FAQ >knows that actually *finding* anything in the !#$% message section fulfills >most of the prerequisites to beatification. > >* * * * * * * * > >I'm not sure what we can do about this, however. Does anyone know how CMC's >doing on his FAQ? I thought he only needed to retool his character sketch. >Should he be encouraged to have a Very Bad Conscience? (BTW, Thanks to Mr. >Walton for getting me back to A.A. Milne ... ) > >And for now, how about linking the appropriate VFAQ line to Penny's Mystery >FAQ? In faqt, howabout adding the VFAQ to the *FAQ* web so that VFAQ >readers >will be exposed directly to the FAQs themselves - instead of being routed >into an obscure corner of the file section? > >However, doing this would require editing the FAQ web, and I'm not sure how >that is done, nor who (besides Steve) is able to do it. Heidi and I both >have pages in the files section that are ready to go online. Should we >recruit another html techie from the main list to help Steve and Paul >Kippes >carry the load? > >(I'd be willing to try, but my html "skills," laughable though they are, >probably aren't the kind of humor the group needs ... ) > >Baaaaaa! > >Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) >_______________________ > >"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been >bravery...." > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From aiz24 at hotmail.com Tue Nov 27 11:24:31 2001 From: aiz24 at hotmail.com (Amy Z) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:24:31 -0500 Subject: [Crosspost to Mod and FAQ] The gleam in the FAQs Message-ID: Mike wrote: >But actually, I'm feeling just a little bad about making fun of Sharon's >gleam >question, for the simple reason that it'd take one hell of newbie to figure >out what we've already said about it. Ah, I'm not that sympathetic. If she'd said "I'm sure someone has said this but the archive search is killing me," I'd agree, but she didn't even know it had been brought up before, proving that she hadn't read the VFAQ. Bad newbie! You will be punished with sarcasm (also litotes, metaphor, and dramatic irony [TM]). >And for now, how about linking the appropriate VFAQ line to Penny's Mystery >FAQ? That's a great idea--very simple and may lure people into the FAQs. Speaking of which, are we done voting on what to call them? Amy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp