ADMIN: Feedback Wanted re List Closure for DH Release

[hpfgu_elves]

No: HPFGUIDX 168181

Hi Everyone,

We are reposting this as a reminder that you can still weigh in on the
subject if you would like:


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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