FAQ

Hello! This is a collection of FAQs I thought might be useful for people. If you have anything to add, correct or discuss please e-mail me - obviously these are all up for discussion, we are a democratic organization and I've just put these up as a template to work from. :-) And if you have any questions please remind me to add them to the FAQ!
-Joyce

1. General
2. Yahoo Group
3. Evites

General

• History of the group - changes, additions? let me know!
  • The group was started on the Meetup.com website. Though the group had apparently met up previous to Winter 2003/04, none of those people have made themselves know since then (come back!) and our group has slowely accreted members month to month until our current strong core group developed. This is when we obtained our most important and mighty member, Sandy! ;-p Most of our members are bookcrossers that came to meetup via bookcrossing, though we have met a couple of people along the way who moved in the other direction. Following the choice by meetup in April 2005 to begin charging its membership to meet, Bookcrossing as an organization made the choice to stop promoting Meetup though its website. Many bookcrossing members, including our group, chose to move their meeting groups elsewhere, in our case to yahoo.
• What is Bookcrossing? Check out www.bookcrossing.com and sign up! :-)
• How do I set up a wishlist? visit Cliff's BC Wishlist site and read the FAQ there. Then sign up, and start wishing! You can post a link to your wishlist on your profile on bookcrossing, either as a link or as a cool interactive frame, see code below (substitute with your own wishlist URL into the code in the bolded positions).
  • link to your wishlist:
  • <a href="http://cliff1976.com/bc/BCWish.asp?BCUser=jmcbeth">My Wishlist</a> on Cliff's site
  • cool interactive frame thingy that allows you to scroll through your wishlist right on your profile page:
  • <iframe width="90%" src="http://cliff1976.com/BC/BCWishInline.asp?BCUser=jmcbeth" frameborder="1"></iframe>

Yahoo Group

• who are the moderators? There are a few of us - if you want to be a moderator please post on the yahoo board and we'll probably do it - providing you have been to meetings and aren't a spammer! All posts on the group are moderated by moderators until you have attended a meeting, please remind us if you are still being moderated after you have been to a meeting, we've just forgotten if that is the case :-)
• A few suggestions for newbies: If you are new to our group, please post to introduce yourself and give us an idea of what kind of books you enjoy and what your bookcrossing user id if you want to let us look at your bookshelf.
• A few suggestions for current members: Send new members a welcoming e-mail! :-)

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