ADMIN: Feedback Wanted re List Closure for DH Release

[hpfgu_elves]

No: HPFGUIDX 167902

With DH arriving only three short months from now, the List Elves
have been revisiting our decisions for prior book releases. We
welcome listmember input on all aspects of how we can best serve the 
list in
the
first frantic days after July 21, but we particularly solicit
comments how long the Main list (HPforGrownups) should be closed for 
elves and and listmembers alike to read the Deathly Hallows. (We 
expect that
HPFGU-OTChatter will be open, but it will probably be a spoiler-free
zone.) 

The Main list will be closed on Saturday, July 21.  What we have not 
decided for certain is when the list will reopen. In 2003, the list 
was closed 45 hours, until 9
p.m. British Summer Time (BST) Sunday. This turned out to be
inadequate for the elves to read and digest OOP before getting back
to work. In 2005, the list was closed for 85 hours, until 1 p.m.
BST Tuesday, a time that was selected with an eye to both giving the
elves enough time to read the book and to choose a time when the
maximum number of members in all time zones would be awake.

We have polled the elves and determined that the earliest we could 
reopen would be Monday, July 23, around midday BST. This translates 
to early morning in the U.S. and roughly 10 PM Australian East Coast 
time. Before then
there will be an insufficient number of elves available for duty.

What we do not yet know is when you, the listmembers, will want the 
list open. When
will you finish reading DH? Do you want the list to reopen at the
earliest possible time, or do you want a little more time to
contemplate? Is it important that the list reopen at a day and hour
when you might be able to read and post? What day and hour would
that be?

Please let us know your thoughts over on our Feedback list, which 
can be
found at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Feedback/

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