Radical Remedy

[lady.nymphaea at faerielands.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., john at w... wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's great to hear all these suggestions and ideas from you. Over 
on the Mod 
> list, the Mods, Elves and Poltergeists (those folks who volunteered 
for the 
> FAQs and kinda stayed because their input is useful) have been 
discussing 
> this since, oh, we hit 900 members. We've got several ideas brewing 
and are 
> just waiting for you all to have your say before we decide on a 
course of 
> action. So, if you haven't put your 8 billion Italian Lira 
(US$0.02) in yet, 
> feel free.

Closing the list completely off to new members is a rather bad idea, 
especially if "poor netiquette of new members" is the reason for 
closing the list. I'm sure some of you realize it already, but this 
list already has something of a reputation in the fandom and it's not 
all good; cliquish and insular are some of the terms I've seen used 
to describe it. These comments, by the way, are from adult fans, not 
from the sort of teens people seem to hate around here.

If the admin team is expecting a large influx of new members after 
the release of the movie, a separate movie list (which I did vote 
for) and perhaps moderating new user posts for the first two weeks or 
so of membership should take care of the etiquette/list acclimation 
issues. The same solution would go for the release of book 5. 
Reminder messages about spoiler space would probably go a long way 
towards promoting it. I didn't really notice any unmarked spoilers 
going through after the Comic Relief books were released. 

The volume issue is completely different in nature and solution, and 
large lists will always have a large volume of posts. I usually run 
about 11 or 12 messages from Clamp Mailing List in my box per day, 
and that list's large but still a bit smaller than this one.

I shouldn't say that I'm exactly glad to see that there are others 
here who are afraid to post, because it's really quite saddening; but 
at least I am no longer alone in feeling that way.

Meril