Topic: Miscellaneous. Background: Sort of the soup to nuts category of the TOC forum, it covers a variety of issues--too many to be explored in any introductory statement. Please make sure you enter reference as "Miscellaneous / specific topic" in e-mail sent to [email protected]. MISCELLANEOUS GENDER COLOR: It would be useful if the members entering the room were allocated a colour in the Chatters box based on sex eg pink for girls,blue for boys and purple for couples! I am aware of some clubs that do this eg new TalkMachine.com      Hmmm... interesting. Yahoo! Clubs uses the Yahoo! Chat interface... i'll pass your idea along and see what they think. SIGN UP A CLUB: The registration process and signing people up to become club members is complicated and horrendous for those with limited IT skills.Yahoo should simplify it.      The reg process is the same standard process throughout Yahoo! We are working on better ways to implement it, but from the Clubs end, we have to make due. Hopefully it's not too unbearable! ERROR MESSAGES, GLITCHES: Members often get 'Restricted Area' message when trying to get in club often because they have used the wrong ID and /or password and not those used to join club. This should be spelt out more on that screen as members dont come in thinking they are no longer members of club.     Good point... we'll address that too with the merge. ERROR MESSAGE ABOUT DELETED CLUB: That message about 'club may have been deleted' that comes up in error sometimes is shit scary and should be changed.     Haha, how scary? I'll see if we can lighten to tone on that. CLUB SPECIFIC PROBLEMS     I can't answer every club specific email here... this sounds like it's happening to your club in particular. For these, can you be sure to email our customer care folks? Just click "No" on the bottom of the form below and ask away. Thanks! <http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/clubs/cmemb/cmemb-04.html> ERROR MESSAGE ABOUT UNLISTED CLUBS: Does anyone else find the page http://dir.clubs.yahoo.com/go_away.html which displays the message big and bold "You are not allowed to access this club" when accessing the name for a private or unlisted club to be obnoxious? Wouldn't it have been pleasanter to have made the URL page name /unlisted.html and the message: "Access to this club is restricted to members by invitation only." or something similar?      That's a good point too... i'll see if we have some engineering time to redo these pages. It is actually pretty rude to get a message like this when you're looking for a club. ACCESS COUNTER: The inclusion of a counter that would trip when someone accessed their account (ID and password). This counter tick would include access to their e-mail or homepage as well as clubs. Hotmail does this, other providers do, how difficult would it be for Yahoo!?     I'm not sure what you're describing... i'll look at Hotmail and get a better idea. DEAD CLUBS: the determination would be made that an account was no longer valid after some arbitrary period of time, such as: 90 days, 180 days, 365 days. Come on, if you can't manage to log into your account to perform any function in over a three months, are you really using that account?     Accounts are an overall Yahoo! determination, and folks are still deciding what to do about inactive accounts. As for Clubs specifically, we are going to clean up "dead" clubs in the next couple months, removing those that have been inactive for an extended period of time. The time frame isn't yet determined, but i'm thinking 3-6 months, somewhere in that time frame.   HOW MANY YAHOO! CLUBS:     Unfortunately, we can't release any information on the exact number of Clubs and the membership figures. You can see the number of listed clubs by going through the directory though, and seeing how many clubs there are per category. ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESS: Warren, I was curious what the purpose of the additional alternate E-mail addresses is in our account info.     This is more for some of the other services on Yahoo!... namely PayDirect which makes use of various email addresses for micro-payments.   VOICE CHAT: Founders should have a choice concerning voice chat use or not. It slows down the chat room.     I think this should be more of a user level choice. If you would like to use voice chat, you can enable it. If not, don't enable it. In terms of speed, the voice chat doesn't take that much longer to load and use in all actuality. GUESTBOOK: I think allowing clubs to have a guestbook would definitely be a cool idea.     Hmmm... well do you really need a guestbook when you have a place for people to share their thoughts and ideas on through a message board? It seems like both aren't necessary -- most times personal web pages provide this to allow guests to post thier thoughts about the page they are looking at. Clubs provides this through the message board. A COFFEE DISPENSER: installed in all clubs. (and possibly one installed for Tylenol or Ibuprophen, too.)     Regular and decaf will be served in every club after the merge. J/K =0P     TOC Review Topics Introduction to TOC Visit Yahoo! Club Founders' Club CFC Main Page You are visitor to this page. This page and its graphics were created by exclusively for The Club Founders' Yahoo! Chat Club. It is best viewed on a 800x600 screen set for True Color with or and is hosted by . Get them NOW!