ADMIN: New Posting Rules

[severelysigune]

No: HPFGUIDX 94772

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Yours severely,

Sigune

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 2. Each digit corresponds to a day of the week: 
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> 1 = Monday
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> 2 = Tuesday
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> 3 = Wednesday
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> 4 = Thursday
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> 5 = Friday
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> 6 = Saturday
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> 7 = Sunday
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> Therefore, if 7 were the number resulting from your birthday, you 
would post on Sundays only.
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> 3. If the resulting number is 8 or 9, you must post to a separate 
list: 
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hpfgu-oddmanout.
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> 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.
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> For example:
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> "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."
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> Decode it thus (encoded words marked with /slashes/):
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> "/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."
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> The embedded message is therefore, "I hate Snape."
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> Note: Hyphenated words count as two words; contractions count as 
one.
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> 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.
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> 5. We will no longer be accepting messages on character motives.
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> 6. We will no longer be accepting messages on Wizarding World 
politics.
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> 7. We will no longer be accepting speculation on events in the next 
two books.
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> 8. We will no longer be accepting messages longer than three lines.
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> 9. We will no longer be accepting messages shorter than two lines.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We hope that these new yet necessary rules will not provide 
excessive inconvenience to list members.
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> Cheers!
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> The List Administration Team
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> p.s. For more Very Formally Detailed information on these new 
rules, including the Sebald code, please see our new list at
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hpfgu-getinformed
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