UPDATE & ACTION REQUIRED, SUNDAY 29 FEB !!

[arrowsmithbt]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:

> IIRC, somebody combined each of those will/won't read threads into two
> single posts.  Those would be easy enough to include in Predictions,
> while rejecting all those that led up to them.  I thought they were fun.
> 
>
 
Not quite. They split at a few points so there are a bunch of threads where
the first fifty or so one liners are the same but differing later, even though
they ostensibly have the same number of jokes in total. So there is more
than one joke numbered '85' for example.
Yeah, I quite liked them too - I ought to, I wrote a bunch of 'em. Nothing
is a bigger ego boost than having your wit preserved for posterity, but I'll
go with the group on whether to save them or not, and if so, how.

> Barry:
> > > You mention not including gibberish - does this mean we can give
> > > Ivan Vablatsky a miss? None  of  his posts seem to have much to
> > > do with canon - just his own strange obsessions. Sad, really.
> > > 
> > 
> Carolyn:
> > LOL! Alas, I think some (a very few) people think he has something to 
> > say (although the deafening silence after his posts is very 
> > noticeable, particularly after the last 'open letter' to JKR). To 
> > cater for this, I have created a special box just for him (1.7.8.2), 
> > and I think we just hastily put his stuff in there, and gaze at it 
> > respectfully as an extreme example of the lunatic fringe.
> 
> Anne:
> All right, I'll admit to having read all of them!  Well, I thought
> they were interesting, as I knew nothing about Alchemy before.  I'd
> have just stuck them under Religious Influences myself.
> 
>

There's probably a good reason for the lack of respondents to Ivan. I once
did myself and started receiving enormous screeds by email. Any reply -
even "I don't want to continue this" resulted in even more. I suspect
that the same thing happened to others and there was a general
realisation that the only way to avoid having the HPfGU equivalent of
the Moonies flooding your mailbox was not to respond under any 
circumstances. He wasn't malicious, just massively over-enthusiastic, 
almost  to the level of proselytising.
For a long time afterwards I thought very carefully about posting on 
certain subjects in case it set him off again. The post 'Prophets without 
honour' where I cast doubt on Nostradamus was ended with the statement
that "I would not, under any circumstances enter into communication on 
this subject" and was put there because of Ivan. It's no fun when you
have to do that.

Can we move the site without telling him?

> To Carolyn: I downloaded the .doc files okay, and it seems the excel
> file too, but our excel '97 can't read it.  My DH was going to try to
> download a converter from the company, otherwise he said you'd have to
> save the excel stuff at the '97 level (apparently you can do that). 
> Sorry if my technical inexpertise is a nuisance -- I'm just hoping we
> can get everything squared away and make it work, so I can actually be
> useful!
> 

I've managed to download the files OK; what I worry about is uploading
from an Apple translation of an Excel clone. It might be worthwhile if I 
have a test run in the near future to find out if it'll actually work, if that
can be  arranged.

Barry