[HPFGU-OTChatter] Age...(history of this club)

[Neil Ward]

Amber asked:

<<Just how old is the HP4GU list? I know that it was founded in August 2000,
but I was under the impression that it moved to Yahoo from somewhere else
(or moved from egroups when egroups was inhaled by Yahoo). And who
originally started the list? Was it Penny Linsenmeyer?>>

The club was founded by Barbara Drey on 17 September 1999.  Penny took over
as List Mom not long after that (she'd be able to tell you when).  The first
thread was a movie-related one about casting Dumbledore (before he was
cast).  The second thread was a movie-related one about casting Snape
(someone actually suggested Alan Rickman).  They did talk about the books,
eventually <g>

The club was originally on Yahoo.  After some technical problems with Yahoo,
we moved to e-Groups, in August 2000, and e-Groups was taken over by
YahooGroups a while after that.

There are almost 8000 messages in the archives, dating from 17 Sept 1999
until just before we moved to e-Groups.  You can read those here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives

<<Has anyone on the chat list been on the HP4GU list from the beginning?
Has the list changed much?>>

Noel was the first person to join the list after Barbara, and he still posts
here now and then [waves in Noel's direction].  I joined in May 2000, when
there were about 100 or so members, and posted something about the movie.
There are now nearly 1600 members - gulp.

Apart from its size, the list has changed in some ways, but not in others.
At the risk of giving you a week of sleepless nights, why not read through
the messages Archives club and you'll see how different (or not) it is? <bg>

Neil
Flying Ford Anglia