ADMIN: New Posting Rules

Thu Apr 1 08:36:53 UTC 2004

No: HPFGUIDX 94768

This ADMIN announces a new, improved type of HPfGU main-list message-formatting rules.  To remedy the increasing number of posts, it is necessary to limit who can post on a particular day. Not wanting to make things too complicated, we strive, as always, to explain our rules with all clarity and conciseness.  Rules can be frustrating to some, comforting to others, too strict to be believed by others.  We hope that you will take time to look carefully at the content of this ADMIN, either now or when you have time. Though sometimes it's difficult to accept rules, it is also necessary to maintain order. Three years ago, it was difficult to read HPfGU because of the chaos that was posted.

1. List members will determine their designated posting days by adding the digits of their Gregorian-calendar birthdates.  For example, if you were born on July 31, 1980, you would add 7+3+1+1+9+8+0 = 29.  Simplify two-digit numbers thus: 2+9 = 7.

2. Each digit corresponds to a day of the week: 

1 = Monday

2 = Tuesday

3 = Wednesday

4 = Thursday

5 = Friday

6 = Saturday

7 = Sunday

Therefore, if 7 were the number resulting from your birthday, you would post on Sundays only.

3. If the resulting number is 8 or 9, you must post to a separate list: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hpfgu-oddmanout.

4. To make posting more efficient, we ask that you embed at least one message within another, using the Sebald encoding method, which dictates that ten unencoded words separate each encoded word.

For example:

"I don't understand why people think Hermione's age is important. I hate it when this thread comes up.  You are just like Snape if you bring it up again."

Decode it thus (encoded words marked with /slashes/):

"/I/ don't understand why people think Hermione's age is important. I /hate/ it when this thread comes up.  You're as ugly as /Snape/ if you mention it."

The embedded message is therefore, "I hate Snape."

Note: Hyphenated words count as two words; contractions count as one.

Granted, the Sebald code requires that a bell ring at the beginning and end of the encoded message, but for our purposes we will require -- and readers will assume -- that the entire message is encoded.

5. We will no longer be accepting messages on character motives.

6. We will no longer be accepting messages on Wizarding World politics.

7. We will no longer be accepting speculation on events in the next two books.

8. We will no longer be accepting messages longer than three lines.

9. We will no longer be accepting messages shorter than two lines.

10. We will make an exception to Rules 8 and 9 only if the encoded message reveals the release date for Book 6, the complete final sentence of the series, or Arithmantic proofs of Sinistra's gender.

11. Your handle must be an anagram, twice scrambled, of your mother's great-aunt's housekeeper's maiden name.  This will enable us to verify your true identity should the need arise.

We hope that these new yet necessary rules will not provide excessive inconvenience to list members.

Cheers!

The List Administration Team

p.s. For more Very Formally Detailed information on these new rules, including the Sebald code, please see our new list at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hpfgu-getinformed

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