ADMIN: Updated Welcome Message - ALL READ

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10928

Hello and welcome to the Harry Potter for Grownups discussion group!

We're dedicated to in-depth, thought-provoking and fun discussions of the
Harry Potter books, as well as the movies, merchandising and other aspects
of the phenomenon we've come to know and love. While there is no age
requirement to join the group, you should note that most of our members are
over 18. Mature teenagers may enjoy the group, but may find themselves more
at home in a group of their peers. In any case, we strongly encourage use of
proper spelling, punctuation and grammar in posts, and expect all our
members to observe common sense, courtesy and netiquette at all times. You
can find out more about the netiquette of this club in the Files section of
the YahooGroups site.

We moved here from Yahoo! Clubs, and have archived the messages from that
service (about 8,000 of them!) at a separate YahooGroup with a search
feature. You can access them by joining the HPforGrownups-Archives
YahooGroup -- either send a blank email to
HPforGrownups-Archives-subscribe at yahoogroups.com or visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives

eGroups has recently turned into YahooGroups, and this has been causing some
problems. Please read our helpful tips and tricks file at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/+merger.txt
or contact the Moderator Team.

We're currently going through "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" on a
chapter-by-chapter basis and holding detailed character discussions on a
weekly basis. For a list of the contributors, see the files section. For
details of past discussions, you can use YahooGroups' nifty search function.

To help new members get into the swing of things, a team of members is in
the process of compiling an extensive set of substantive FAQs (Frequently
Asked Questions) in essay format, gleaned from past list postings and
covering subjects such as Mysteries and Inconsistencies, Wands, Wizarding
World Governments and major character sketches. We'll post them as they are
completed and notify the group. REALLY frequently asked questions, such as
the order Harry's parents come out of his wand, the gleam in Dumbledore's
eye can be found in the RFAQ, which is still under construction.

When writing your inevitable "first questions" post, where you ask all those
burning questions from the books, please make sure you put proper subject
headings on them: in other words, not "Hi, I'm new", but "Hi, I'm new/Wand
Order/Gleam in Dumbledore's Eye/Wizarding Education".

For detailed information on every aspect of the HP books, we highly
recommend the Harry Potter Lexicon, maintained by Steve Vander Ark, one of
our members. It can be found at http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon

We're also investigating the possibility of a UK Tour, taking in sights
relevant to HP such as King's Cross, Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands and
more. Planning has moved to the HPTour eGroup -- to subscribe, send a blank
email to HPTour-subscribe at yahoogroups.com or visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPTour

General questions can be directed to the Moderator Team at
hpforgrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com

Legal stuff:

In posting to this group, you grant the Moderators the right and license to
use the content of your messages in other contexts. At this time, the
Moderators intend to use this permission only for purposes of archiving and
creating topical FAQs for the group, but reserve the right to use them for
other purposes. If you have any concerns about infringement of your
copyright, you are advised to contact the Moderators. Should you have any
further questions, feel free to contact the Moderators.

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

=| Moderator With Rock #47
=| "Russian cabin boy in Celine Dion drag" of the HMS H/H
=| Receiver of the world's dumbest FFN review for Song of Time, Chapter *5*:
"really cool! so, what? Draco and harry r like, stepbrothers or sometihng?
cool idea" Mental note: SoT presumes reading of Draco Dormiens.

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