ADMIN: Please read this (warning: contains hairnet, some people may choke)

[Neil Ward]

Hi everyone,

Forgive me for wheeling out this much-loved Broken Record spell once again,
but it's high time for some hairnetiquette:

[Flying Ford Anglia raises his wand, points it at the innocent and highly
individual faces and shouts "Repetitious!"]

OT TOPICS

OT topics, or threads, once they become OT, should be posted to our OT
Chatter list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter).  The OT list
was created to help keep control of the message volume on the main list, so
if you want to discuss the price of eggs, please don't do it on the main
list (no one has discussed the price of eggs, before you all start looking -
this was just a serving suggestion).

YOU HAVE <a gazillion> NEW MESSAGES

***"They could hear all the letters streaming into the room, bouncing off
the walls and floor"***

There are a number of other points in our Netiquette Tips file aimed at
keeping the flow of messages down to a mildly raging torrent instead of
something akin to Niagara Falls:

- One line posts are discouraged.  If you have several short things to say,
consider combining them into a single post, noting the various subjects in
the header;

- Consider sending off list notes (or use OT Chatter) with personal/review
comments aimed at only one or two people ("I loved your post.." "I have a
spare Hedwig ornament you could have" .. that sort of thing) if that's all
you want to say;

- If you have questions about the lists that aren't answered by the various
files we've created, please contact the moderators or (for the newbies) your
List Elf for further information.  See bottom of message for addresses.
Please don't post your question on the main list;

MAKING THINGS EASIER TO READ

- Please remember to label posts accurately (especially those of you on
Digest) and use prefixes for certain topics: FF (fanfic), MOVIE, SHIP
(relationshipping), (filk) etc, so that people can decide what they want to
read and skip those things they want to avoid.  Anything labelled ADMIN
should, of course, be chanted three times in a nasal voice and observed
dutifully. ;-)

- If you are responding to long posts, please be kind to the rest of us and
snip out the bits of the original message that aren't needed.  Otherwise
your excellent comments may be lost like a tiny saplings in a tangled
forest.

ANY QUESTIONS?

For general reference, please view the Welcome Message in the Files section,
and that includes a link to pretty much everything you might need to know
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/HPFGUWelcome.htm).

Among other things, it includes links to the VFAQ, netiquette tips file,
shorthand terms (such as IMHO, IIRC, OBHWF) and the Portkey to our sister
groups.

Moderator Hexquarters (reaches all the moderators):
hpforgrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com

List Elf Dungeon: hp4guelves at ....

You read this far?  My, you were bored indeed....

Magically yours,

Neil
Moderator Team
________________________________________

Flying Ford Anglia
Mechanimagus Moderator

"The cat's ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely
a bit bow-legged and its face looked grumpy and oddly
squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall"
["The Leaky Cauldron", PoA]

Check out Very Frequently Asked Questions for everything
to do with this club:

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