ADMIN: Covering Old Ground

[elfundeb2]

No: HPFGUIDX 77948

Greetings from Hexquaters!

The list is extremely busy these days, and many members are frustrated
to see the same questions being asked again and again. HPfGU does not
ban the discussion of old topics. What *is* very irritating to other
list members, however, is the repeating points and questions that have
been discussed *very* recently. Therefore, we would like all posters
to do the following:

Please read the VFAQ and OoP FAQ (links on homepage) which will give
you an overview of the most frequently asked questions. Please check
to see if your questions have already been covered. Asking why Harry
couldn't see the Thestrals at the end of GoF, for instance, is not
acceptable, but giving a *new* theory as to *why* he couldn't, on the 
other hand, *is*.

Please at least glance at the Fantastic Posts site,
http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/ (also available via link on home page)
so that you know what is there and where to check up on various old
topics of conversation. If you want to discuss something which is
likely to have been discussed in the past (whether Snape is a Vampire,
for example) you can then refer to old posts on the subject and build
on these, rather than presenting as new ideas which have already been
documented.

Please, if you are not regularly keeping up to date with 
discussion at least glance over the subject lines of posts for the
last few days, preferably a week or so, so as to know whether what you
want to say may have been dicussed recently. If you want to reply to a
thread, then please read *all* of that thread first.

Please attempt to use the search function. It isn't great, but you
should get some results with persistence.

If you see someone bringing up a topic that has recently been
discussed, please don't get angry at that person. However, feel free
to guide that person towards previous discussions where relevant.

Thank you

The HPfGU Administration Team