At 03:07 PM 8/18/96 -0500, Scott Johnson wrote:

*snip*

That, I think, *is* the main problem - that so many of the loudest people
on this list don't realize why others would be disenchanted with it.  If
everyone understood that there are people out there who don't appreciate
chatty in-jokes between a small proportion of the list (I think White Wolf
has said there are about 200 subscribers to this list.  Now, just judging
by how many different people actually post, how many would you *think*
there are?  Twenty, maybe?  Perhaps even thirty?  Perhaps not even that?)
or people writing two-page messages just to *bap* each other, or pun wars
or things like that.  If they *did* realize that, then maybe we could work
out a mutually agreeable solution - but as things are going, it seems more
and more likely that the social participants are going to drive the
pure-on-topic participants away.  Disappointing, to me, but hey, at least
the list won't have quite as many fanfics to get in the way of your
weather reports.

I've got just one question:

If you hate nonfanfic-related posts so much, why did you post this to the 
list instead of private email?

									- MW
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