Happy Anniversary, HPFGU
Aug. 24th, 2005 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiIt's been five years since Alicia-Sue (socialista, are you still here?) kicked off the migration of HarryPotterforGrownUps from the Yahoo club I joined six weeks before, to an eGroup, which later transmogrified into the Yahoogroup that's still around today.
I'm still technically a member of the Main list and Movie, but the only hpfgu lists I still get emails from are OTChatter, Announcements & Convention, even though I'm on the Mod list, primarily as an IP Law consulting-type. I just don't have the time to keep up with the main list, and personally, I prefer forum & lj-type discussion.
Back when hpfgu became an eGroup, there were few other places to talk HP with people who could spell and didn't post primarily in l33t. There were perhaps 3000 fics & chapters on ffn, and there were no other 'open' sites for fanfic. Leaky Cauldron existed but it was more of a small-time operation until later that year when BK took it over. And I think there were about 1000 people on hpfgu.
I've had good and bad times on the list, I won't deny it. But I think everyone has a soft spot for the way they entered fandom, and hpfgu is that for me. Without it, I wouldn't know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
folk, epicyclical, aegeus, geneaologygirl, gwendolyngrace, sheryll, bbennett, bkdelong, cjestes, titanic_days, madlori, angiej, psychic_serpent, elfundeb, owlman, vado, and probably another hundred of you as well.
How many of you were on the list? How many of you were there before the OTC-split? Are any of you still there and posting? How about lurking? If you're still reading the list what do you think about what it's like these days?
And damn, isn't the fandom a big freakin' thing as we come onto six years?
I'm still technically a member of the Main list and Movie, but the only hpfgu lists I still get emails from are OTChatter, Announcements & Convention, even though I'm on the Mod list, primarily as an IP Law consulting-type. I just don't have the time to keep up with the main list, and personally, I prefer forum & lj-type discussion.
Back when hpfgu became an eGroup, there were few other places to talk HP with people who could spell and didn't post primarily in l33t. There were perhaps 3000 fics & chapters on ffn, and there were no other 'open' sites for fanfic. Leaky Cauldron existed but it was more of a small-time operation until later that year when BK took it over. And I think there were about 1000 people on hpfgu.
I've had good and bad times on the list, I won't deny it. But I think everyone has a soft spot for the way they entered fandom, and hpfgu is that for me. Without it, I wouldn't know
folk, epicyclical, aegeus, geneaologygirl, gwendolyngrace, sheryll, bbennett, bkdelong, cjestes, titanic_days, madlori, angiej, psychic_serpent, elfundeb, owlman, vado, and probably another hundred of you as well.How many of you were on the list? How many of you were there before the OTC-split? Are any of you still there and posting? How about lurking? If you're still reading the list what do you think about what it's like these days?
And damn, isn't the fandom a big freakin' thing as we come onto six years?
