Trouble on the HPS Yahoo Groups

I know this won’t find everyone, but Yahoo won’t let me post to the list this morning. As I know many list members also read the blog, thought I’d post here about what’s going on. If you all would help pass the word, I’d appreciate it.

Yahoo is upgrading its groups feature. This is great, but every time Yahoo upgrades, we have technical problems while they’re doing it.

This morning I got to work to discover there were 36 messages on the HPS Adults yahoo group. Now, I know this is the chatty group, but that’s a bit much even for you all! It turned out a message I’d sent through from Dr. Young actually went through 18 times. Another from Candice and Crystal went through nine times. And so on……

I just tried to post to make you all aware of the problem, but it won’t let me post. I’m doing everything I can to make sure everyone isn’t drowning in duplicate e-mails. Also, as I was flying through these messages, it’s possible I deleted a non-duplicate by mistake. If I did, I’m sorry!

Just wanted you all to know what’s going on. If someone from the list would do me a favor and try to cut and paste this into a message and post it to the group, maybe we can get it through that way.

Thanks!

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