To the Long-Time Listees

[Anne]

--- 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.  .... 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!


Anne U:
I am a bit newer even than Annemehr (I think I joined in mid-
November '02) and I'm even seeing some threads that were discussed 3-
4 months ago being rehashed again (pardon me if I'm one of the re-
hashers! :-) This doesn't totally surprise me, though, because IIRC 
the main HP list had about 4900 members when I joined it, and now it 
has (I think) over 6,200. So close to 20% of the current members of 
the list have joined in the past 4 1/2 months - meaning since HP & 
the Chamber of Secrets movie was released. As a matter of fact, *I* 
joined this list, HPFGU and HPFGU-Movie right after seeing COS. At 
that point I had read SS and COS twice, and POA once and was about 
3/4 through reading GOF (remember, I was reading it 15-20 pages at a 
time to my 6-year-old daughter...sorry to read so slowly compared to 
the rest of y'all). Anyway it was seeing COS that gave me the impetus 
to start looking for other *adults* with whom to discuss the 
Potterverse. I was aware that there were large numbers of kids and 
teens discussing HP online... but I was quite pleasantly surprised to 
find these groups, complete with thought-provoking adult discussion 
and rules that forbid people from talking in teen web speak ;-)

Well, time to read the main list... I haven't had time to check it 
since about 11:00 last night ... hope there aren't 100 messages!!

Anne U
(at least not 100 TBAY-length messages:-)