I'm back on the broomstick again!!!

[Melanie Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 365

I'm sorry I haven't posted here until now.  Since Thursday, I haven't 
been able to access the eGroups web site from work.  I've had no such 
problems on my home computer, and at work, it's only recent, and (as 
far as I know) limited to eGroups.  I suspect my company has recently 
restricted our computers from the site.  Maybe some of us were 
spending too much time there, and for some reason, they want us to 
actually do our jobs <g>!

At any rate, I've just caught up on all my posts for this club (in 
both Yahoo! and eGroups), and I wanted to address a few of the issues 
I saw tossed around.

YAHOO! ALTER EGOS:
On Yahoo!, I'm better known as ravenclawlady, though I was also in the 
club as melaniem68.  You will be hearing from the ravenclawlady here, 
as well.  I just signed up here under ravenclawlady at yahoo.com, so I 
could at least follow the discussion when I'm at work.  That is 
assuming that the Yahoo! site doesn't become restricted there, and 
that my Yahoo! ID isn't destroyed by a hacker.  Which brings me to...


THREATS:
I saw that post yesterday too.  I immediately went to delete the 
poster from the club, but saw he was already gone.  At first, I 
thought he'd just joined the club long enough to have his say, then 
jumped ship.  I later saw in the eGroups messages that Penny had 
deleted him.  I guess great minds think alike (and so do ours).

I did, however, report the message to TOS Abuse.  If Penny or anyone 
else also did, great.  My message will just reinforce theirs.


FANFIC
As you may have already seen, I added a folder in the "Files" section, 
labeled "Fanfic".  That way, our many (several?) fanfiction authors 
have a place to post their work, for easy access by the rest of us.  A 
couple of weeks before the move, Jim asked if the club had a place for 
such a thing.  Well Jim, we have that here!  The first thing I'll put 
in there, on your behalf, is "The Granger Interview".  Great piece, 
BTW.


MESSAGE ORDER
I believe that is, unfortunately, eGroups-wide.  I belong to a list 
dealing with Yahoo merger issues, and see that complaint often there.


HTML POSTING
Someone (I think it was Dee) asked how HTML messages appeared on the 
digest and on text-only e-mail.  It doesn't show HTML tags, per se.  
It does, however, throw in a lot of extraneous symbols.  The most 
common is an = or an =20 at the end of each line.  Also, if the 
message is sent with "special" quotation marks, an apostrophe will 
appear as an =92 (quotation marks also show as an = and a number, but 
I've forgotten which).  So, for example, the word "you're" will appear 
as "you=92re".


Well, I think that's all the business for now.  Tomorrow, I hope to 
start up again with the "fun" posts.

Melanie