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[Frank D]

Frank D:

On the whole the HPFGU group is great: good-to-excellent posts and the same level of replies and followups. I keep the ones that are relevant to my interests in a Harry Potter folder in my mail client so that in the future I can return to data-mine them or recapture a point.

Just one minor irritant for me is that, in general, too much of the previous subject matter is being repeated. When you have two or three paragraphs of quoted text with all kinds of pov's and topics, and then the current poster says something like, "Yes, I agree!" or "That's not the way I see it," I am forced to go back to word 1 of paragraph 1, all the way through to the end, to see if I can glean what the current poster is agreeing or disagreeing with. It's a very tiring and mind-boggling experience when you are going through 20 or 30 posts in a row. It would be fantastic if each poster would quote at most one or two sentences at a time, make one specific point based on it/them, and then go on to the next point. That would make reading all posts quick and pleasurable.

That's it: my 2 cents. Thanks for the opportunity to post my comments.

Frank D