ADMIN: Feedback Wanted re List Closure for DH Release

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Main#167902 
From: "hpfgu_elves" <hpfgu.elves at ...>
Date: Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:51 am
Subject: ADMIN: Feedback Wanted re List Closure for DH Release 

With DH arriving only three short months from now, the List 
Elves have been revisiting our decisions for prior book releases. 
We welcome listmember input on all aspects of how we can best 
serve the list in the first frantic days after July 21, but we 
particularly solicit comments how long the Main list (HPforGrownups) 
should be closed for elves and listmembers alike to read the 
Deathly Hallows. (We expect that HPFGU-OTChatter will be open, 
but it will probably be a spoiler-free zone.)

The Main list will be closed on Saturday, July 21.  What we have 
not decided for certain is when the list will reopen. In 2003, 
the list was closed 45 hours, until 9 p.m. British Summer Time (BST) 
Sunday. This turned out to be inadequate for the elves to read and 
digest OOP before getting back to work. In 2005, the list was closed 
for 85 hours, until 1 p.m. BST Tuesday, a time that was selected 
with an eye to both giving the elves enough time to read the book 
and to choose a time when the maximum number of members in all 
time zones would be awake.

We have polled the elves and determined that the earliest we could
reopen would be Monday, July 23, around midday BST. This translates
to early morning in the U.S. and roughly 10 PM Australian East Coast
time. Before then there will be an insufficient number of elves 
available for duty.

What we do not yet know is when you, the listmembers, will want the
list open. When will you finish reading DH? Do you want the list to 
reopen at the earliest possible time, or do you want a little more 
time to contemplate? Is it important that the list reopen at a day 
and hour when you might be able to read and post? What day and 
hour would that be?

Please let us know your thoughts over on our Feedback list, which
can be found at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Feedback/

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