Happy April Fool's Day!

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No: HPFGUIDX 15750

Feeling especially bright today for recongising the joke.
Let's get some advance planning done for next year and have the news 
sent out through all lists -- How about this for a breaking news?  
JKR falls ill to some mysterious illness (or car crash etc.) and 
unable to finish the series -- that will be funny.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "John Walton" <john at w...> wrote:
> ::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