Oldbies (WAS Re: Posts that get replies (or not))

[Cindy C.]

Alice wrote:

>I dare say we'll break the record of around 3200 a
> month. I must say I'm glad I don't get the e-mails, but use the 
>Yahoo platform. 

Yeah.  Me too.  It totally freaks me out to have so many e-mails hit 
my box.  It also makes me feel compelled to reply to every single 
one of them, as though the e-mail came to me personally when it 
really went to a list of 7000 people!  

>I wonder when the list will really get out of
> hand... "out of hand" would mean, let's say, that only about 1% of 
>the members would be reading ALL the messages, spending many hours 
>a day doing so... scary.

Like Abigail, I read the main list pretty selectively these days.  
Post-OoP will be weird, though.  I anticipate that it will take me 
at least a week to read OoP.  See, I've ordered two books for four 
people, so I'll have to share.  Also, I want to savor and enjoy OoP, 
not race through it. And I will certainly want to read it twice 
before I post about it or read the main list. 

So I will be hundreds or even *thousands* of messages behind when I 
finally get back to the main list, so I won't take the time to catch 
up. I'll probably just start right off posting -- "Hey, did anyone 
else notice the gleam in Voldemort's eye?"  ;-)

I kind of figure that lots of people will do the same.  Urgh!

Cindy -- chanting "I will take my time with OoP, I will take my time 
with OoP, I will . . . "