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No: HPFGUIDX C7731
From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Egroups Home
Date: 8/24/00 5:58 pm  (ET)

Hi:

The Club now has an egroups home. We can migrate over there immediately,
or we can wait and see if Yahoo will clear problems up. Here's our new
egroups home (Melanie -- I'll make you a co-moderator once you join):

http://www.egroups.com/group/HPforGrownups

Once you reach that page, there will be a notation to your left that says
"Subscribe." Click on that & follow the steps.

Question: Our old Yahoo message archives -- does anyone know if we can
move them (copy them) over to egroups? I know we do have the xoom.com
site that Smitster set up, but it would be great to somehow download
them to egroups, wouldn't it? Beyond my technical proficiency to know
if that's even possible.

I will continue to monitor this Club for the next few months so that
people who only check periodically will know that we've moved. I agree
with Melanie that it may take months before the Yahoo Clubs have the
egroups features. So, I think moving now makes some sense. I do have
sentimentality (sniff, sniff) about this Club, but I think we'll be
better off in the long-run by making the switch now.

I'm also not wedded to the idea that we must move right this hot second --
but I did want to get a name & space reserved for us.

For those of you not familiar with egroups, you can still approach it as
a web-based view (you don't *have* to receive messages via email). You
just make that selection when you subscribe.

Last -- the Club description -- we have alot more space with egroups so
I'm open to suggestions on revamping it. I took what we had before for
the most part.

I didn't exactly know where to categorize our Club -- I ended up putting
it in Arts: Literature: Authors: JK Rowling. Some HP groups are under
Arts: Literature: Children's Lit. I could also have put it in Arts:
Lit: Fiction (or Fantasy or British Lit or several other appropriate
subcategories). What to do with all these choices? <g>

Penny