Main List Survival Strategy (WAS: Retreating to the safety of OTChatter

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> 
wrote:
> Debbie wrote:
> 
> > I thought I'd share 
> > my own personal Main List Survival Strategy, since I can't read 
> 500 
> > posts a day either.  Here's what I do.  I pick a topic I'm 
> interested 
> > in, like Snape's pensieve memories.  Then I simply search on 
those 
> > terms using the Yahoo search function, which is lousy for digging 
> > back through the archives, but it works fine when you just want 
to 
> > see what's been posted in the last few days. 
> 
> Mine is shameful.  I use the search function to look for the e-mail 
> addresses of people whose posts I like.  It's bad because it means 
> interesting new people join the list and I don't realise it for 
> weeks or months.
> 
> David

You know, David, I just might adopt *your* strategy. There ARE 
certain people whose posts I love ... and others whose posts I've 
decided to avoid for various reasons. I have noticed that I don't 
recognize the names of a lot of the current posters; I did kind of 
drop off the list around Easter when my previous computer died (and I 
had to wait a week to get the new one set up, and by then I was a 
thousand messages behind)... so maybe some of these folks have been 
posting the past 2 months and I was just not aware of them, or maybe 
they're mostly lurkers come out of the proverbial lurking closet... 
and perhaps some of them are totally new to HPfGU, drawn in 
specifically by OotP.

Anne U
(now reading OotP to my daughter, meaning, very slowly)