Main List Problems

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "\\lila phillips" 
<southernscotland at y...> wrote:
> Hey, so now I know that all those great posters ARE
> still around! They've just gone AWOL - or OT, in this
> case!
> 
> I've dropped out of the Main List (roughly equal now
> to the population of China), too, because of the
> volume (rather like my carb intake at a buffet line
> after breaking Atkins). 

ROTFLMAO, Lila!! Thank you for this great comparison. The Main List 
*HAS* felt like it suddenly contained the entire population of China. 
Or maybe it was just that each of the 3,000 people who joined in the 
month or so after OotP was released decided to post 333,334 messages 
(which I think multiplies out to approximately 1 billion), or the 
equivalent of one post per person IN China. (That's what it felt like 
to me anyway.) I attempted to read the main list for about one week 
after OotP but it was too scary. So I gave up for awhile, then went 
back occasionally and was dismayed to see the kinds of problems 
people have been commenting on here. So basically I haven't even 
looked at the main list for at least a month...and I have to say I 
don't really miss it. Most of the folks whose posts I've enjoyed 
since I joined the HP fandom last November seem to post here (though 
on different topics) and I suppose if I had a really burning question 
about OotP, I could probably ask it here or off-list and get a 
reasonable level of response (rather than hundreds of messages per 
day, which I simply can't plough through).

I'm relieved to discover that plenty of other people can't handle the 
main list these days. Now I don't feel so bad about ignoring it :-) 
Anyway, I'm too busy hanging out with my SHIP-mates on Live Journal 
and Yahoo!Messenger and attempting to write fan fiction to worry 
about why the hell Harry wasn't able to see the thestrals prior to 
OotP...or whether Snape is a vampire (and I always thought he had 
porphiria...)

Anne U
http://www.livejournal.com/users/anneu53714