radical remedy

[meckelburg at foni.net]

Hi All!

I'm with this group (main group, announcements and OT) for nearly 6 
months now, but I could count my last months posts with the fingers of 
one hand. The whole list seems to be exploding and the title for 
grown-ups" is no longer correct. Maybe I'm just tired of waiting for 
book 5, but the group is much less fun. Of cours it is easy to blame 
it on the teens alone, and I won't. Subjects have already been 
repeated when I joined, but now it doesn't even take one or two weeks 
for everything to be discussed over and over again. The list elves 
were a really good Idea ( I sure could have needed one when I joined 
:-) )but newbies don't seem to be listening to them, or askingthem 
enough question off-list.

I believe we should make this list "for adults" again. There is no way 
of control I know, but the words "mature teenagers are welcome" or 
similiar is an open invitation. Which teenager would "not" call 
himself mature??;-)

I'd love this group to be the fun place it used to be.
Mecki

P.S. And before one of the offended teens complain about *my* grammar 
and punctuation in comparism to theirs. Those who know me ( from the 
"old" posting days >sigh<) will confirm that english is not my native 
language and that, in fact, this group is my only possibility to write 
or speak English at all. (Unless you can call the German of a two-year 
old English. I call it Babymarsian.)

I don't know if a new "invitation only"group is a solution, but maybe 
it could be worth a try. What would be the criteria (sp?) of the 
membrship? If the absolute correct English is a must, then I most 
surely cannot join!

Mecki