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On Wednesday -- August 30, 2000 at 6:30 p.m. PDT, a chat session of The Official Club was held on-line. The transcript, recording more than an hour of dialogue, is presented as three pages. It was prepared for the benefit of those who could not be present. Some diacritics, icons, and other pictorial information have been removed and font reduction has taken place for clarity and to conserve space. No other editorial license has been taken. There is, however, an area of missing dialogue where I have attempted to inject what was said from personal recollection. The area is marked on page two.
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The Official Club You see here: valerie_008 bette_75494 enters bette_75494 says, Hi Valerie valerie_008 says, HelloSecretive__ leaves Secretive__ enters Secretive__ leaves Secretive__ enters Secretive__ leaves Secretive__ enters bette_75494 says, Hi SecretiveSecretive__ says, geeze louise ... i think I finally got to stay in here!Secretive__ says, hey there bettebette_75494 says, yep you were bouncing alotSecretive__ says, had lots of flickerings and such, didn't know what I was doingSecretive__ says, strange, never saw anything like itSecretive__ says, *shrug*bette_75494 says, it took me a few minutes to get logged into chat roomSecretive__ says, hey valerie! *waves* how you doing?clubsproducer says, hi allSecretive__ says, hello warrenbette_75494 says, Hi Warrenclubsproducer says, what's going on? valerie_008 says, Hello Warrenclubsproducer says, huge turnout tonight!clubsproducer says,Secretive__ says, heheheh... nothing munch, I apparently did a tigger imitations trying to come in here toniteSecretive__ says, munch? hmmmm.. meant much ... bad typing nightclubsproducer says, what do you mean?clubsproducer says, were you bouncy trouncy bouncy trouncy fun fun fun fun fun?Secretive__ says, was weird, had grey boxes flashing up saying i was disconnectingSecretive__ says, then i was connectingclubsproducer says, ah...Secretive__ says, so I killed the boxes valerie_008 says, ... I just left the bed at 3:30 in the morning... still half sleepimgSecretive__ says, and my monitor did a Sat. Night Fever impersonationclubsproducer says, what time is it where you are valerie?Secretive__ says, first time that ever happened *shrug* valerie_008 says, 3:35...clubsproducer says, wowclubsproducer says, why don't we give folks another 5 minutes or so to show up valerie_008 says, OKSecretive__ says, not a problembette_75494 says, sureclubsproducer says, then we'll chat for about an hour on anything you guys had in mindclubsproducer says, be back in 5...Secretive__ says, hey there clue and feraldFeralduck says, hiSecretive__ says, clue=blue ... geeze, typing bad tonight all over the placeblue_iz_1973 says, Hi secretive and everyonebette_75494 says, hi blue valerie_008 says, Hello blueclubsproducer says, ok folksclubsproducer says, hey blue and feralduckclubsproducer says, glad you could join usclubsproducer says, shall we get started?blue_iz_1973 says, hi warrenFeralduck says, hiclubsproducer says, anything on your minds tonight?Secretive__ says, well .... warren I was wonderingFeralduck says, empty as usualSecretive__ says, the club you started was to offer feedback adn brainstormingSecretive__ says, yet last night the clubs were all screwed up .. invites were hosed all week-end ....clubsproducer says, yeah i posted about the invite problemclubsproducer says, we finally discoved the causeSecretive__ says, then today a new date system is on the main cover pageclubsproducer says, a new date system?blue_iz_1973 says, when the invite thing is fixed, will we be swamped w/the missing mail? valerie_008 says, we see everything... LOLSecretive__ says, yes... used to read Aug 30 <subject> <author> <glimpse of post>clubsproducer says, i don't believe so... i'll check and make sure thoughSecretive__ says, now it is 08/30clubsproducer says, ah...bette_75494 says, yes it is 8/30 valerie_008 says, that's not better... specially for non-US readersclubsproducer says, we did the date change primarily for our international sites valerie_008 -)Secretive__ says, are we going to get some warning before the work starts on some of this stuff in case it does affet reading of posts, being able to post and such?blue_iz_1973 says, that is the warning LOLSecretive__ says, yes valerie, 4 of my european members have already complaintedclubsproducer says, you will get warning, but nothing will change in the near termclubsproducer says, they don't like the date format?Secretive__ says, they thought the message board was still acting up so went back to showing 'recent' posts from the 8th of augustSecretive__ says, they liked the old format actuallyclubsproducer says, hi clubfoundersclubSecretive__ says, the month abbrev and dateclubsproducer says, that's interesting, well but numbers are alot more universal than month abbreviations valerie_008 says, in German clubs it is DD.MM. nowclubsproducer says, nothing much... we just got underwaySecretive__ says, warren: yes, but last night recent posts weren't showing ... or sending you back to #40 if you tried to read themclubsproducer says, yes, and it should appear that way in german clubsSecretive__ says, so they thought yahoo was really screwed up today when logging into the clubs' clubfoundersclub says, US military records ddmmyy too. The rest of us in the US are just weirdclubsproducer says, yeah, it's that old problem we were havingblue_iz_1973 says, invites will be fixed and we shouldn't be swamped w/the missing mail, plus the date thing changed. That's about it.clubsproducer says, when our message board servers get maxed outSecretive__ says, that's why I was asking if we could more warnign when a change is being put onclubsproducer says, they can't post things right away, so they take you to the first 40 messages clubfoundersclub says, one of the members of my club wanted to know about making the calendar public so that he could advertise events.clubsproducer says, until everything is caught upSecretive__ says, CFC: that was answered on the boardclubsproducer says, i answered the calendar question earlier valerie_008 says, Yahoo bought a new hard disk ... ? Great! ;-)Secretive__ says, warren said that it would up to the founder clubfoundersclub says, I don't remember seeing it answered--sorryclubsproducer says, that's ok clubfoundersclub says, I looked for replies to...clubsproducer says, basically it will be the founder's choiceclubsproducer says, when we have the merged productSecretive__ says, CFC: it was a wee bit buried under the hacking letter postingsclubsproducer says, because some people feel very strongly about keeping that info private clubfoundersclub says, I can believe thatFeralduck says, warren, any progress or news on edit/move for clubs (changing order of clubs on my yahoo page)?blue_iz_1973 says, gee messages at this club buried? LOL clubfoundersclub says, Did you see our refocus on Wish#10Secretive__ says, blue: hehehehehe... hard to believe huh?clubsproducer says, no plans for edit/move changes in my yahoo at this pointFeralduck says, ok thanks clubfoundersclub says, just checking because the guys had two meetings to discuss thatclubsproducer says, hold on one secclubsproducer says, ok, sorry i got a callclubsproducer says, we have rerouted the invites stuff to our old serversclubsproducer says, so that should be working nowclubsproducer says, yay!blue_iz_1973 says, that's good news!amonij says, Helloclubsproducer says, hi amonjiclubsproducer says, anything else anyone?clubsproducer says, refocus wishlist #10?clubsproducer says, i don't think i did see that yet clubfoundersclub says, Hi amonjiclubsproducer says, i'll check it out later tonight if i get a chanceamonij says, HiSecretive__ says, warren: abosorry, had to step away for a momentclubsproducer says, 5 or so hmmm?clubsproducer says, ok, i'll definitely check it out thenclubsproducer says, 4 or less wouldn't have been good enoughclubsproducer says,nocturnalfury says, Hey guysFeralduck says, the invite probs didn't affect my clubs too much we do word of mouth membership mostly and have had great success with it also people find us thru clubs search a lot more than invitesclubsproducer says, that's actually the case usuallyFeralduck says, and warren a personal thanks for cleaning up the dross in membership and bad postsblue_iz_1973 says, Unlisted clubs are hurt w/the invite problem thoclubsproducer says, people find the clubs through we browsing, and not by invitationsclubsproducer says, but you're right blueclubsproducer says, unlisted clubs need invitations for new membershipnocturnalfury says, Hey smooth clubfoundersclub says, We ran out of Link space in our club about 8 months ago and I keep a list of all the clubs and their homepages on our Homepage linked from newssmooth_manager71 says, hey guysnocturnalfury says, I just read your message on the board *LOL* we're gonna have to make you a co-founder or something. clubfoundersclub says, the thing is Unlist clubs give me an e-mail address for contactsmooth_manager71 says, LMAO ya i reread that and it sounded totally groupieish but decided to post anyway cuz you guys rulenocturnalfury says, Awwww well thank younocturnalfury says, Warren thanks for giving us the info on the invites problem. clubfoundersclub says, having the address with the club description--at least when the page is checked out--allows people to contact the founders if interested.clubsproducer says, no prob nocclubsproducer says, i'll be right back guys...clubsproducer says, no prob nocclubsproducer says, i'll be right back guys...nocturnalfury says, It'd be cool if we had a single webboard or something you could post messages like that onsmooth_manager71 says, you need a place you can post those things regularily for us to see.nocturnalfury says, LOL hey I just said that.smooth_manager71 says, *smiles* sorrybette_75494 says, that would be coolFeralduck says, double posting messages againcx_jason says, excuse me guys ...anyone has brought out the club bookmarks issue..?smooth_manager71 says, damn sorry folks I need to get going now. I mainly just popped in to see if this chat was for real. l8r g8rz valerie_008 says, noblue_iz_1973 says, bye smooth clubfoundersclub says, what am I missing in this? isn't the message board a single webboard?nocturnalfury says, ok l8r smooth.Secretive__ says, if they are giving founders options of opening up calenders and such ... why not give unlisted founders an option of having a mini cover page to provide a club descript, category, and contact info on clubfoundersclub says, that is an excellent idea!
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