Happy April Fool's Day!

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 15743

::walks onto stage in leather trousers, maimed and with imprint 
of modem on his forehead::

As it's now past 12 noon on April Fool's Day, the shutdown joke 
is now officially over. I'm terribly impressed with how quickly you 
caught on ::evil look at Cassie:: but I do hope nobody sent 
emails to AOL or Yahoo! telling them how naughty they are.

But a few of you fell for it, hook, line and sinker, going so far as to 
send us naughty Moderators email. Let's have a look...but for 
your dignity, you'll remain anonymous (but feel free to blush):

==
If you need it, I currently have a list space (meaning I have a lit 
but no one's there) for HJPforGrownups.  Same list just one 
letter changed which means they cannot close it down to my 
knowledge.  If this is un-suitable for you it is understandable and 
it will go back to being an un-used rpg list so it's no sweat off my 
back if you don't want it.  
==
Hey, guys. I am just furious at AOL/WB for pulling a stunt like this. 
I'll spare you my rant (Even Ron would blush at how much I can 
swear when I get angry like this <g>), and just give you some 
suggestions. Well, a suggestion, anyway. Only thing I can think 
of is to move the group elsewhere, which is what I'm doing for 
granger-weasley. Topica (www.topica.com 
<http://www.topica.com> ) is a really great free service that, I 
believe, allows you to move members from another group. It's a 
smaller service than Yahoo, and probably will sail right under 
AOL's radar. I assume that their part in all of this is that they want 
to be exlusive content holder for HP, but they're such idiots they 
probably don't know what they're doing half the time. Moving 
would be an incredible hassle with so many members, but I 
don't think I could bear losing this group....
==
John, I'm stunned.  What about the Chatter group?  Can we 
rename our 
group in such a way that HP isn't part of the title?  Or just start a 
new group with a less conspicuous name?  Call it the Mod 
Squad group 
or something, and let the members know?  I'd be happy to start 
private emailing the list right now, if we can do something like 
this.  It was just our title that got us in trouble, wasn't it?
==

Thanks to all of you for taking part. See you again next time on 
April Fool's Day, 2002! ::evil laugh::

--John, April Fool 2001