Howdy--and a Yahoo! Note

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "boyd_smythe" 
<boyd.t.smythe at f...> wrote:
> Whew! This looks to be fun, and after reading everything I can't 
> believe I'm saying that. You have all done an amazing job on this 
> project; I'm honored to join. BTW, I love predictions, and I'll be 
> paying extra attention to whether our current predictions 
categories can be improved.

Carolyn:
Well, that's a relief, the category list has got a bit alarming, even 
to me! But, it does make a lot of sense when you are cataloguing..you 
will not believe what comes up. Happy to hear your suggestions - but 
do take a look at the catalogue site first to see how it all works.

> 
> Here's the quick note on Yahoo! If I'm Yahoo!, my concern about 
this project is the decrease in eyeballs hitting my site and 
generating my ad dollars. So there are a couple of ways around this:


Carolyn:
Alas, this is not really a Yahoo problem at all. If anything, it will 
be so wonderful that people spend even more hours on the HPfGU site 
reading it, no doubt pestered by ads as they move from screen to 
screen just like now. 

No, unfortunately, is about what permission the members have given us 
to use or display their posts when they joined HPfGU, and also what 
permission we end up with to even index their posts if someone has 
left the group. Its tricky, and means the full display of some stuff 
may have to be through a link to the post rather than the full text - 
a great pity when following an argument. It also limits us fixing the 
post titles, or touching any part of the text of posts probably (I 
had wanted to split up the multi-part ones for ease of reading, for 
instance).

However, I am puzzled, and would just like to comment on one point 
raised by Paul/Heidi - there was no intention that this catalogue 
could be used anywhere outside the HPfGU group, or be open listed on 
the web, or on even on Yahoo generally. I had seen it strictly as a 
high value resource for current HPfGU members, and if members even 
had to access it via an additional password, that would be fine by 
me. Does this make any difference to Heidi's advice?

Carolyn