Re: List Book CLub
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:03:56 -0500
> I was thinking the other day, "Why isn't there a good on-line book club"?
>And
> then it hit me, we could have a book club along with our usual messages, we
> could read a certain book every two weeks or month and then send our comments
> through the list.
> What do you think? We would give a poll of books and choose through votes as
> a group.
This is a great idea, but poses a bit of a technical and logistical problem
in the sense that it would increase the traffic here (which can get pretty
heavy at times; not a problem at this end, but a problem for people whose
mailboxes can't handle the load) and would make the archives of the list a
little trickier (to split or not to split).
However (and there is always a however), I'd be more than happy to put up
another list for the discussion of book-of-the-moment, and have it run in
parallel. Someone could even post an occasional digest here, if people on
this list seem interested. Anyone on this list can join the other; anyone
NOT interested in Salinger could join and not be involved in Salingeriana.
How about if after the kind of lengthy discussion we engage in 8-), people
send me mail pro or con, and if there are enough people interested, I'll be
happy to make a second list and run it in parallel with this one.
I'm hesitant to add this load to the current list for one other reason:
people already send me private mail to say that the list has too much
traffic for them and so they must quit it for that reason. I don't mind
seeing this list grow based on its subject; but I don't want to scare off
anyone who is on the fence about whether to stay or go.
Please, anyone, speak up in public or to this address in private, and have
a say about it. It would be a delight to have another list in tandem, for
those who want to participate.
--tim (who has about 349 other lists chained to his neck)