From OTC: List-volume discussion (way long)

[dumbledore11214]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Erin" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
> Erin responds:
> Maybe you don't like the long posts, but people's ideas of "fun" 
can 
> differ, you know.  The long, well-thought-out posts are my reason 
for 
> reading the list.  The thought of a list made up entirely of short, 
> conversational posts gives me the shudders!  I can't think of 
> anything more... teenybopper.  (Doesn't mean it is, just that's how 
I 
> view it.  An entire list of one-liners, me too's, and Dumbledore's 
> gleams. *Shudder*)
> 
> My whole joy in the list is to go back through and search for the 
> wonderful long theories. Magic Dishwasher, ESE!Anyone, and anything 
> Elkins ever wrote are what make the list great.   Conversations can 
> be fun, but for me there's nothing memorable in them, nothing to 
make 
> you want to go back and reread.  Or if there is, I immediately wish 
> that it was consolidated into a larger, "proper" theory so as to 
make 
> it easier to refer back to :-) 
> 



Alla:

Yes, yes, yes. Me too! :o) (It is not forbidden here, right?)