[HPforGrownups] [HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Threat to the HPFGU Family of Lists

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 86840



> Carol:
> At the risk of being jumped on, I agree with Iggy, whose advice as far
> as I can see is completely well-intentioned. If we want to preserve
> our group, we should take defensive measures at this critical point. I
> don't pretend to be an administrator and have absolutely no authority,
> but I hope that I may make a few suggestions for the consideration of
> my fellow group members. First, we can delete our own posts if we feel
> that something we've said could be used against the group. Second, if
> we fear being hit with a virus (as one member apparently was), we can
> go off e-mail and read our messages from the site. Third, we can keep
> our messages strictly on-topic (the HP books) and avoid subjects that
> are likely to light a flame under the group wreckers.
>

OK firstly Yahoo have a tendency to delete without checking - so it doesn't
matter what we say because they're not going to check. Secondly, if we start
trying to worry about how someone who wants to cause trouble could twist
what we say then we're not going to say *anything*. And thirdly - all the
messages on the main group *are* on topic - if they weren't they wouldn't be
on the main group in the first place. If we all start running around like
headless chickens and trying to second think everything we say then the
groups going to end up as being about nothing but Dumbledore's Gleam and
Thestrals and the trouble maker will have managed to destroy the group
without having to do anything more than make some threats!

K

"The Loudest Noise Comes From The Electric Minerva."