Further note on our 'old' Yahoo club (responding to Amanda)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 11156

Amanda wrote: 

"I keep getting postings from a group, as shown in the message
I've forwarded below as an example--the subject line doesn't show the
[HPforGrownups] that ours does, but it's the same name. 
<snip> Are they a totally different group?" 

As Dr Simon has already explained, Yahoo! is where we started out.

I'll add that when we first moved over to eGroups, Paul (smitster1) 
archived the entire club into another, searchable eGroups club, which 
you can find via our Portkey (Files section) or, directly, at: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives/messages

The messages there date back to October 1999, and it's worth noting 
that the contents have been incorporated into the FAQs we are writing.

As Simon said, people have continued joining and posting in the old 
club, but it's really just a trickle of the rampaging river it once 
was.  

To recap: If you signed up to Yahoo! *and* joined that club (to use 
the chatroom) with the delivery option set to receive e-mails, you 
will get messages posted there just like Amanda has.

Neil
Moderator with pillow #13












> 
> Note that:
> Yahoo Club means the old Club over on Yahoo
> Yahoo Group means the new group, which was formerly on eGroups, and 
is on
> Yahoo Groups (where this message will be posted to).
> 
> The message in question is a post to the original HPforGU that 
exists on
> Yahoo Clubs (but will probably be left to die now as we no longer 
have a use
> for it). Though most moved over and now use this Yahoo Group, a few 
people
> still talk on the old group at Yahoo Clubs. Some find Yahoo Clubs 
nicer to
> use and some just find it a little too busy here (I can understand 
this).
> 
> While the chats were being held on the Yahoo Club it was necessary 
to be
> subscribed to the Club to join in. Now the chat happens on the 
Group it is
> no longer necessary to be also subscribed to the old club.
> 
> Choices are setting the old club to web access only or totally 
unsubscribing
> from it.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Simon
> 
> Below is the forwarded message from HPforGU Yahoo Clubs that Amanda 
was
> asking about.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Harry Potter for Everyone [Yahoo! Clubs: Harry Potter 
for
> Grown Ups]
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:21:44 PST
> From: radar_resa <clubs-mail at y...>
> Reply-To: clubs-mail at y...
> To: editor at t...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Barbara my name is Deresa. I just love the Harry Potter books. I 
read
> alot of Children's books as well as adult books.
> 
> I love everything about the Harry Potter books.
> You can just get lost in the Fantasy. It is just like the "Hobbit"
> books. You can get lost in another world for awhile. I read alot of
> adult books too and was surprised that people consider these books 
for
> children. My favorite character is Ron Weasley. I always go for the
> underdog. As you can probably tell by my screen name radar.
> 
> Please reply if you would like to.
> Deresa
> 
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