Radical Remedy

[Rita Winston]

Naama wrote:

> how would you feel about closing the list (the 
> mother list) to new members, at least for a while? 
> I have been feeling progressively disenchanted with
> the list, and I think that it is due, in large part,
> to the enormous size it is now and the to high rate
> in which it grows.

I just have this irrational gut-feeling that it would be WRONG to close
the main list. But it would be okay to start spin-off lists that can be
joined only with the list-owner's permission...

Jennifer Piersol:
> While I must admit that I rarely read anything 
> on the main list anymore because of the sheer 
> volume and repetitive nature of the topics,

I'm on webview and I can't log on every day, but when I do log on, I
read every post that has come since last I read (I *occasionally* stop
reading a post before I get to the end -- that mostly happened in the
Abaness debate). It takes a fair amount of time, which may be why
everyone else finds so much more time to read fanfic than I do.

>  but then there's always an Alicia/Sue to make 
> us think twice about a lower age limit.

Yes. Alicia-Sue is safely 16 now, but I have been amazed over and over
by the excellent writing and thoughtful remarks of list members who then
mention being 14 or even 13 years old. Like Jenny from Ravenclaw and
nosilla Allison said. 

>  I'm scared that when book 5  comes out, we're 
> going to have total chaos.  We'll be up to 3000 
> posts a day, many of which will fail to include 
> spoilers, and some of us will get so frustrated 
> that we'll just give up the whole community in 
> disgust.  Or we'll become so frustrated that 
> someone will come up with a "HP4GU list only 
> open to members who've been members for a year 
> or more" or something like that.  The whole 
> thing scares me a bit.

Yes, when it gets TOO HUGE, I'm afraid I'll run away in fear. That would
be a good time to have a smaller list -- or why don't some of us troop
over to hpa and revive it? 
http://www.yahoogroups.com/messages/harrypotteranonymous/

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