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[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Judy Serenity wrote in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/17641 :

<< Think back to when you first joined HPfGU. Would you have been 
upset if we had had this policy? Would you have left, or would you 
have stayed and waited to be able to post? >>

Back in 1999, I first joined Harry Potter Anonymous, where I was told 
about the Y!club precursor of this HPfGU, and joined it. I found HPA 
by e-groups search for Harry Potter, and read every post in the web 
archive before I joined, to make sure it was what I wanted. (Even so, 
IIRC my first post was a stupid newbie post, replying to a 
Harry/Hermione ship post by saying that the then-latest book, PoA, 
had given us a strong hint that Harry was interested in Cho.) The 
HPfGU web archive was only read-able by members, so I had to join in 
order to read every post in the archive in order to be properly 
prepared to post. I took some vacation time from work for 
archive-reading purposes. I could never join HPfGU now, because there 
isn't enough vacation time in the universe to catch up on almost 
18,000 posts. 

Grey Wolf wrote in  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/17651 :

<< And of course, if you find it unreasonable, no-one is forcing you 
to stay. Create another HP discussion, put your own rules, and run it 
without forcing anyone to follow them. >>

Send them to HPA 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harrypotteranonymous/messages/ which no 
longer has any rules (nor much activity) since its owner went away 
(maybe to college?).