Stop looking at me like that.  :P  No, I mean it.  This list has gotten
far, FAR too big.  No one can reasonably read even a significant
percentage of the list traffic coming through consistently, day to day,
unless he or she has a GREAT deal of free time on his or her hands.  And
that doesn't include actually *writing* fics instead of merely
reading/C&C'ing them, or whatever.

	I go for the mass deletion theory.

Everyone would be free to pick one (or two, or whatever) sublist to
subscribe to, and get to know people.  Granted, this might tend to make
things a little cliqueish, but I think the benefits GREATLY outweigh the
pitfalls.

Comments?

	It would be too difficult to manage multiple lists, especially
without differences of content.  If you said perhaps one list for all Ranma
fanfic and another for everything else, that could perhaps work.  Still
doubtful.
	There would be no way for people on one list to know what's
happening on another list.  No way to determine which list one would like
to be on.  Division is not the answer.

	However... it has given me an idea... don't look at me like that
either.  >=P  ML mail falls into three basic catagories: fanfics, spam, fic
related.
	What I assume most people desire is fics getting read.  Since most
people can't read everything that comes down the pipe, many decide to read
nothing they don't recognize.
	Perhaps what we need is a weekly review of new fics.  Actually not
so much a review, but a summery that would be posted on a regular basis.
	The author of a fic would write a paragraph or so about their work
and mail that to one moderator-type who would collect the summeries and
make the weekly post.
	This way people could just read the weekly post and choose which
fics to read without having to sort through all the actually fics.  It's
less biased than a review and people will read fics that interest them.
	Many of the fics I used to read, I read because I saw a review of
them first.  I have 20 megs of unread fics that I haven't touched yet, so
I'm already trigger happy on the delete key.

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