To the Long-Time Listees

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> As a relatively new listee (joined September '02), I can't help 
> wondering how you older listees see the main HP list these days.  I 
> did do some reading of the old year 2000 posts and recognized some
> of your names from nowadays -- Cindy C. still posts fairly often,
> and I believe Queer As John was posting a bit last September or 
> October, and there are others.

I joined HPfGU before GoF was published, so I guess I count.
 
> Do you guys see much at all that you haven't seen 100 times before?
> Maybe many of you just pop in once in a while just to see if
> anything interesting has come up?  I know that even I am now seeing
> subjects reintroduced that I have seen hashed out once or twice 
> since *I* joined!

My intention is to read all the posts on the main list and on OT (in 
honor of my oldness, two or three times I have moaned: "Oh, gods, I 
can't read *this*" and closed a post I found ultimately boring) and 
so far I have succeeded. My problem is that I don't have enough time 
to go on-line, so I try to catch up with a week's worth of posts on 
Friday night and/or Saturday ... last night I was asleep, so I still 
have 400-? posts accumulated on the main list to read today ... 
before my 5pm get-together with RL friends ...

I kind of dread the OoP release, because the activity on the list 
will increase so much that I fear I won't be able to keep up.

Another way I indulge myself, on excuse of old-ness, is I created 
some .txt files that started as copies of my posts on certain topics, 
topics on which it could be said that I obsess, so when I see that 
some poster needs to be enlightened with my certainty on e.g. the 
relationship between wizarding technology and Muggle technology, I 
can copy copy & paste the .txt file into my reply post. I only do 
that if no one else has enlighted the person by the time I do my 
catch-up reading. 

But IIRC the question was whether I ever see anything totally new 
that I've never seen before posted. The answer is yes, but I think it 
is less often than once a week. Far more common is new expansions on 
on-going topics.