Clarification: ADMIN: New HPFGU Website

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 28560

I'm sorry, I forgot that not everybody on the list is on the same wavelength
as me. Let me clarify what this new website means :)

The www.hpfgu.org.uk website will be a helpful resource *in addition to* the
HPFGU lists, not as a replacement for them :) Think of it as a more
user-friendly Files Section, perhaps -- we will be able to group bits of the
club's documents together in ways Yahoo won't allow -- i.e. we will be able
to link to the Recommended Reading (in the Database Section of Yahoo) at the
same time as we link to something in the Files Section at Yahoo. Also, we
will be able to refer to documents like the VFAQ with much shorter,
easy-to-remember URLS (aka "links"):

www.hpfgu.org.uk/vfaq
instead of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/Files/Admin%20Files/VFAQ.html

Basically, click on the new www.hpfgu.org.uk/vfaq link and be magically
redirected to the VFAQ file, which is still based in the Files Section, but
which now has a much shorter link. This works the same with the VFAQ and
Welcome File. 

Plus, these new redirect addresses won't need to be reconstructed when they
go over one line long :)

As far as the bits which say "list" below, they redirect to the Yahoo Groups
page of the list in question. Why would you go here? Well, to post if you're
on Webview and can't be bothered to type out
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Announcements/ to get to Announcements,
just type out www.hpfgu.org.uk/announcements and you'll be magically
redirected right to the Announcements group. It works the same with the
other links. Try them out!

www.hpfgu.org.uk/
www.hpfgu.org.uk/mainlist -- the HPforGrownups list
www.hpfgu.org.uk/otchatter -- the OTChatter list
www.hpfgu.org.uk/movie -- the Movie list
www.hpfgu.org.uk/welcome -- the Welcome Message
www.hpfgu.org.uk/files -- the Files Section
www.hpfgu.org.uk/admin -- the Admin Files
www.hpfgu.org.uk/vfaq -- the Very Frequently Asked Questions file
www.hpfgu.org.uk/netiquette -- the Netiquette file

Any other questions? Ask away :)

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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
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the Internet, we know this is not true."

John Walton -- john at walton.vu
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