Reminder - Weekly Chat

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 138948

Hi, everyone--

I'm sorry about this, it's my fault this hasn't been updated.

As some of you may remember, a few months back Yahoo closed all 
'user created' chat rooms, one of which was HP:1, so we had to 
figure out what to do.

Up to then, we'd never used the group chat room (accessed just 
by going to the group online --
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups 
and clicking "Chat" in the lefthand menu) because too many people 
were experiencing problems with it -- kept getting bounced out of 
the room, chat window was way too small, could only see half the
things being said, etc.

It seems that Yahoo has fixed some of those problems; well, those
things may still occur, but not to the extent they had before.  So,
when they closed our created room, we gave the group room another
chance, thinking that if it were unusable, we'd just have to find 
some other venue.

So far it's been working okay, though.  You can enter the way I
describe above or you can also go to http://www.yahoo.com and find
"Chat" listed there.  You'll have to click on "All Y! Services..."
and then find Chat in section C of the alphabetized listings.  Use that to enter any Yahoo chat room and then type "/join *g.HPforGrownups" (without the quotes) to enter the room.

The reason you may want to try the second option is either if you 
have trouble getting in the other way, but also that some folks 
just prefer it because it looks a bit different -- the chat window 
is wider rather than longer, the group info stuff (lefthand menu,
'Group Tips', etc.) isn't there, though you do have Yahoo ads at 
the bottom of the page, and so on.

I'll make sure the reminder is updated so it reflects this info 
for next week.  Please, though, if anyone has any questions or 
problems getting in, rather than post here on the main list, do 
so on OTC instead:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPfGU-OTChatter
or contact the elves: HPforGrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com
or just email me directly: kelley_thompson@ sbcglobal.net (this is 
my new email address, so if anyone's tried to reach me in the last 
few weeks, please resend to this address.  I'm sorry about that!)

Okay, think that's it. <g>  Please, if anyone has any problems, let 
us know!

--Kelley Elf