One suggestion for the Group Read

[ish mailian]

 You open your email and find you have 200 emails on day one and this
keeps up for a week, then tapers a bit, explodes again and again, then
it thins to near silence and the group read fails.

This is not what happened way back in the beginning or for a decade or
more as folks worked through book after book with creative generosity,
and, with only the occasion flame war or heavy duty fight,  did some
remarkable reads,  but it is what happened to several more recent
attempts, despite herculean efforts by one or two individuals to keep
the ball bouncing.

There is so much stuff we can all toss into the discussion daily. And
that's fun and beautiful and who needs any rules or regulations. This
is, as advertised, a fabulous orgy.

But, my grama's giant but, but can we maybe keep the volume down in
the first few sections just because we will lose too many people if we
stuff them with 300 a day.

Not suggesting any limits or rules or editing or monitoring but just
that we all recognize that if we flood the space early we may not have
any human voices left to awaken to when the mermaids arrive to waft us
all to shore.
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l