Hi - and thanks..

[carolynwhite2]

Kelley, we've been in contact offlist today already, but thanks again 
for inviting me...[and more hugs, ok..?]

Looking through the members list, it is kind of deja vu in a very odd 
sense for me. Quite a few of you will know that I am the person who 
has started the catalogue project, with the insane intent of reading 
and cataloguing every post on the Yahoo Club and current list. Yeah, 
I need my head examined. So far, I have coerced, 
bludgeoned, "charmed", call it what you will [they generally do], 
about a dozen other people to help me. Various list elves look on 
incredulously. And Paul Kippes makes it all work..what a guy.

But the point of mentioning all this is that I spend a fair few of my 
waking hours reading all the posts that the members of this group 
originally wrote. It is truly odd to suddenly find myself in your 
company, since very few of you post on main anymore. Bit like talking 
to the Hogwarts portraits and ghosts! Fortunately I have met Neil, at 
least, and he assures me he is only too real..<g>. We have a special 
category in the catalogue called 'just for a laugh', and guess who 
gets coded there most..

However, this also means that Heidi's post uplist about a 'newbie' on 
OTC complaining about the state of the list [it was me] is even more 
ironic than she intended. Since I was in the process of reading the 
whole list from the beginning, and had already read several sets of 
such complaints already (and you only had a c.1000 members at that 
point!), you could say I knew what she meant. Hope I was able to 
explain adequately offlist Heidi (?)

Erm, about myself..hate this bit. I'm a Brit, live in London. 
Background with large media groups - business and financial 
publishing. Run complicated network of reseach, training, publishing 
and conference businesses with various partners. 

Eng lit degree originally, still read very widely - revisiting old 
stuff, reading myself into new areas. First discovered HP just before 
POA was published, but didn't find HPfGU until the weekend OOP came 
out. I just needed to talk to people about it so much that I trawled 
the web following links till I found something intelligent. 

And one of the first things I read when I got to HPfGU was MD - and I 
have been terminally hooked on conspiracy theories ever since, the 
nastier the better. [Hi Carolina - she started the catalogue project 
with me, and Kneasy..you get the drift!]. 

But I hasten to assure you the catalogue will not be a biased 
bloodbath -we are tracking any idea that moves. I have learnt so much 
from all the amazing posts, its my way of giving something back.

Carolyn
Ahem, however, we have an agenda item with you CatLady..can you 
imagine the problems your posts cause us? Your current record number 
of individual topics is 21..and counting <g>. We love you, but..