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.

A special "Thank You" goes to Valerie_008 who helped record this dialogue.




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bette_75494 enters

bette_75494 says, Hi Valerie

valerie_008 says, Hello

Secretive__ enters
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bette_75494 says, Hi Secretive

Secretive__ says, geeze louise ... i think I finally got to stay in here!

Secretive__ says, hey there bette

bette_75494 says, yep you were bouncing alot

Secretive__ says, had lots of flickerings and such, didn't know what I was doing

Secretive__ says, strange, never saw anything like it

Secretive__ says, *shrug*

clubsproducer enters

bette_75494 says, it took me a few minutes to get logged into chat room

Secretive__ says, hey valerie! *waves* how you doing?

clubsproducer says, hi all

Secretive__ says, hello warren

bette_75494 says, Hi Warren

clubsproducer says, what's going on?

valerie_008 says, Hello Warren

clubsproducer says, huge turnout tonight!

clubsproducer says,

Secretive__ says, heheheh... nothing munch, I apparently did a tigger imitations trying to come in here tonite

Secretive__ says, munch? hmmmm.. meant much ... bad typing night

clubsproducer 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 disconnecting

Secretive__ says, then i was connecting

clubsproducer 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 sleepimg

Secretive__ says, and my monitor did a Sat. Night Fever impersonation

clubsproducer says, what time is it where you are valerie?

Secretive__ says, first time that ever happened *shrug*

valerie_008 says, 3:35...

clubsproducer says, wow

Feralduck enters

clubsproducer says, why don't we give folks another 5 minutes or so to show up

valerie_008 says, OK

Secretive__ says, not a problem

bette_75494 says, sure

clubsproducer says, then we'll chat for about an hour on anything you guys had in mind

clubsproducer says, be back in 5...

blue_iz_1973 enters

Secretive__ says, hey there clue and ferald

Feralduck says, hi

Secretive__ says, clue=blue ... geeze, typing bad tonight all over the place

blue_iz_1973 says, Hi secretive and everyone

bette_75494 says, hi blue

valerie_008 says, Hello blue

clubsproducer says, ok folks

clubsproducer says, hey blue and feralduck

clubsproducer says, glad you could join us

clubsproducer says, shall we get started?

blue_iz_1973 says, hi warren

Feralduck says, hi

clubsproducer says, anything on your minds tonight?

Secretive__ says, well .... warren I was wondering

Feralduck says, empty as usual

Secretive__ says, the club you started was to offer feedback adn brainstorming

Secretive__ says, yet last night the clubs were all screwed up .. invites were hosed all week-end ....

clubsproducer says, yeah i posted about the invite problem

clubsproducer says, we finally discoved the cause

Secretive__ says, then today a new date system is on the main cover page

clubsproducer 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... LOL

Secretive__ 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 though

Secretive__ says, now it is 08/30

clubsproducer says, ah...

bette_75494 says, yes it is 8/30

valerie_008 says, that's not better... specially for non-US readers

clubsproducer 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 LOL

Secretive__ says, yes valerie, 4 of my european members have already complainted

clubsproducer says, you will get warning, but nothing will change in the near term

clubfoundersclub enters
clubfoundersclub says, Hello

clubsproducer 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 august

Secretive__ says, they liked the old format actually

clubsproducer says, hi clubfoundersclub

Secretive__ says, the month abbrev and date

Garrit_Sherova enters
clubfoundersclub says, So what did Garrit and I miss?

clubsproducer says, that's interesting, well but numbers are alot more universal than month abbreviations

valerie_008 says, in German clubs it is DD.MM. now

clubsproducer says, nothing much... we just got underway

doc726 enters

Secretive__ says, warren: yes, but last night recent posts weren't showing ... or sending you back to #40 if you tried to read them

clubsproducer says, yes, and it should appear that way in german clubs

Secretive__ 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 weird

clubsproducer says, yeah, it's that old problem we were having

blue_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 out

Secretive__ says, that's why I was asking if we could more warnign when a change is being put on

clubsproducer 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 up

Secretive__ says, CFC: that was answered on the board

clubsproducer 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--sorry

clubsproducer says, that's ok

clubfoundersclub says, I looked for replies to...

clubsproducer says, basically it will be the founder's choice

clubsproducer says, when we have the merged product

Secretive__ says, CFC: it was a wee bit buried under the hacking letter postings

clubsproducer says, because some people feel very strongly about keeping that info private

clubfoundersclub says, I can believe that

Feralduck 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#10

Secretive__ says, blue: hehehehehe... hard to believe huh?

clubsproducer says, no plans for edit/move changes in my yahoo at this point

Feralduck says, ok thanks

clubfoundersclub says, just checking because the guys had two meetings to discuss that

clubsproducer says, hold on one sec

clubsproducer says, ok, sorry i got a call

clubsproducer says, we have rerouted the invites stuff to our old servers

clubsproducer says, so that should be working now

cx_jason enters

clubsproducer says, yay!

blue_iz_1973 says, that's good news!

amonij enters
valerie_008 says, Great!

amonij says, Hello

clubsproducer says, hi amonji

clubsproducer says, anything else anyone?

clubsproducer says, refocus wishlist #10?

clubsproducer says, i don't think i did see that yet

clubfoundersclub says, Hi amonji

clubsproducer says, i'll check it out later tonight if i get a chance

amonij says, Hi

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clubfoundersclub says, Yah, we had five or so terrific ideas

clubfoundersclub says, LOL

bette_75494 is back.

Secretive__ says, warren: abosorry, had to step away for a moment

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clubsproducer says, 5 or so hmmm?

clubsproducer says, ok, i'll definitely check it out then

Secretive__ enters

clubsproducer says, 4 or less wouldn't have been good enough

clubsproducer says,

clubfoundersclub says, yah, #10 is about people to people customer care and getting more of Yahoo! to come see what their missing

nocturnalfury enters
clubfoundersclub says, Hi Noc

nocturnalfury says, Hey guys

Feralduck 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 invites

clubsproducer says, that's actually the case usually

Feralduck says, and warren a personal thanks for cleaning up the dross in membership and bad posts

blue_iz_1973 says, Unlisted clubs are hurt w/the invite problem tho

clubsproducer says, people find the clubs through we browsing, and not by invitations

clubsproducer says, but you're right blue

clubsproducer says, unlisted clubs need invitations for new membership

smooth_manager71 enters

nocturnalfury 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 news

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smooth_manager71 says, hey guys

nocturnalfury 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 contact

smooth_manager71 says, LMAO ya i reread that and it sounded totally groupieish but decided to post anyway cuz you guys rule

nocturnalfury says, Awwww well thank you

nocturnalfury 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 noc

clubsproducer says, i'll be right back guys...

clubsproducer says, no prob noc

clubsproducer 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 on

smooth_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* sorry

bette_75494 says, that would be cool

Feralduck says, double posting messages again

cx_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, no

blue_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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