about Main List: Catlady's marathon

[Cindy C.]

Melody:

> Actually Catlady, I was wondering what you were going to do this
> weekend.  There have been like 4000 posts this week, and I was 
>curious if you were going to loyally read every one of them.  Then I 
>was going to ask which ones were worth reading.  ;)


You know, I sense a business opportunity for Catlady.  If she has 
read all the posts to the main list, she could sell a list of the 
very best posts!  I suspect lots of people would want that list!  ;-)


 
> But I like to read how others are dealing with the main list.  I for
> one glaze over it and am just waiting for it to calm down.  Mostly
> because the repetition of basic topics and questions were grating 
>on me.


Yeah, that is a problem, huh?  I keep going over just to marvel at 
the posting rate.  I wonder how many posts per minute there have been 
on average since the list re-opened?  I wonder what the highest 
number of posts in a single minute or hour might be?

I have a feeling that figuring this out might involve *math.*  Oh, 
ugh.
 
> Is there a way we can "encourage" those
> guilty to read the posts relevant to their query (they can just 
>glace at the titles) or at least browse the OoP FAQ.  

Sure.  We could try to organize things a bit.  We could decide that 
we'll focus on one topic at a time.  Like decide that next week will 
be Snape week, then the following week might be Sirius week, and so 
forth.  Maybe there'd be less cross-talk?  Who knows.  Not me, that's 
for sure.  ;-)

Cindy