FAQs Update; Admin Message (Please Read)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 10015

Hi --

FAQs UPDATE: We've got so many newbies that I thought I would update the
group a bit on the status of the "FAQs."  We have a group of about 10
people who have been diligently working on going through all 7000+ Yahoo
messages (Oct 1999 - Aug 2000) and the nearly 10,000 messages we've
generated here at egroups since late August 2000.  We are creating a
series of webpages that will summarize things that have been discussed
before & hopefully spur new & creative discussions (and just give
everyone basic information).  There are 54 FAQs being written when I
last looked.

The topics range from character sketches for all the major characters,
book-banning, Religion & HP, Wands, Magical Devices, Geography & HP,
Hogwarts, JKR, Wizarding World - Economy, etc.  In other words, we're
covering a wide range of topics.

We are trying to find the appropriate place to host these pages and then
will upload what is prepared at this point, leaving inactive links for
those FAQs that are still under construction.  We are very hopeful that
we can have at least some of these uploaded by the end of the month.  My
guess is that 1/3 of them are close enough to being done to upload by
the end of this month, once we figure out where they are being uploaded.

ADMIN STUFF

Can I please ask anyone who is receiving Digests to please, please,
please put something in your subject line other than Digest #___.  This
is particularly important for those of us working on the FAQs (which
will be updated & maintained as we go along).  If your subject heading
is Hogwarts & I'm in charge of that particular FAQ, I'll take a look at
that message & decide if it's something that needs to be added to the
FAQ (new info or insights) or not.  If your subject heading only says
"Digest #355," I'll have to look at the message regardless.

Also, for people responding to Digest points: if you're responding to a
variety of subjects, be sure to list each one out in your subject
heading.

And, finally for Digest users -- please be sure you attribute the source
to any quoted material (as in "Penny said -- [quote]" and "Ebony
responded -- [quote]").  Make sense?

Let the Moderators know if you have questions.  This is a very
high-volume list, and lots of us find that we pick & choose amongst the
messages that we read.  So, subject headings are critically important
(as is changing a subject heading that is no longer relevant if you've
branched off into another topic).

Welcome to all the newbies -- and thanks!!

Penny