[HPforGrownups] Daemons in Egroups? / Harts

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 1422

At 21:42 09/13/2000 -0400, Dee wrote:

"Hi.  Wonder if anyone else has seen this today?  Alot of the egroup
messages I am getting, including my own(!), are arriving 6 hours late!  This
is also occurring over on the clubs side of Yahoo.  Is there a correlation,
perhaps?  Or am I the only one caught in the "let's annoy our members" trap
again?  (LOL.  J/K, btw, but it is annoying...)"

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There could be a connection with the Yahoo system problems, since the two
are merging.

When I checked on ParadigmOfUncertainty during the day, it told me the
messages weren't available.  It was okay later on. 

On a few occasions, when accessing from my workplace, I have been unable to
access egroups - it just hangs - but I put that down to a problem with my
computer.

In this club, I posted a reply concerning UK/US books which then appeared in
the e-mail list. A while later I received a similar message posted by
Blaise.  Even allowing for the fact that she has her system set to GMT and I
have mine in BST, she still posted her message before mine, but mine
appeared to reach the list first (I know, because I checked to see if anyone
had already answered Helena's post). I concluded that Blaise must have a
time-turner.

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Simon was getting into defining deer, and mentioned that the definition of
'hart' was significant.  Assuming he meant in reference to HP, the only
things I can think of is that a hart is a red deer and red is in the
Gryffindor colours and that Harry will be in his fifth year at Hogwarts next
year, but that's probably not what he was getting at.  BTW, my dictionary
says that hart is a male deer (especially a red deer). I dunno Simon -
what's the answer?

Talking of my dictionary, it refers to itself as "Encyclopedic".  I'm
assuming that Simon's spellchecker had corrected it to "Encyclopaedic".
Most references on English usage say that the former of these spellings is
taking precedence. I wonder if this is due to the American influence or a
natural tendency to modernisation of British English?  

Neil

            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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